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307. Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson

...ou, ye twinkling starnies bright,
 My Matthew mourn!
For through your orbs he’s ta’en his flight,
 Ne’er to return.


O Henderson! the man! the brother!
And art thou gone, and gone for ever!
And hast thou crost that unknown river,
 Life’s dreary bound!
Like thee, where shall I find another,
 The world around!


Go to your sculptur’d tombs, ye Great,
In a’ the tinsel trash o’ state!
But by thy honest turf I’ll wait,
 Thou man of worth!
And weep the ae best fellow’s fate
 E’er ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


308. The Epitaph on Captain Matthew Henderson

...STOP, passenger! my story’s brief,
 And truth I shall relate, man;
I tell nae common tale o’ grief,
 For Matthew was a great man.


If thou uncommon merit hast,
 Yet spurn’d at Fortune’s door, man;
A look of pity hither cast,
 For Matthew was a poor man.


If thou a noble sodger art,
 That passest by this grave, man;
There moulders here a gallant heart,
 F...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

A Tribute to Mr J. Graham Henderson The Worlds Fair Judge

...Thrice welcome home to Hawick, Mr J. Graham Henderson,
For by your Scotch tweeds a great honour you have won;
By exhibiting your beautiful tweeds at the World's Fair
You have been elected judge of Australian and American wools while there. 

You had to pass a strict examination on the wool trade,
But you have been victorious, and not the least afraid,
And has been made judge of wools by Sir Henry Trum...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

Hot

...'d go mad. . .
it was foolish I know, childish,
but I was caught in it, I was caught.
I delivered all the mail
and then Henderson put me on the night pickup run
in an old army truck,
the damn thing began to heat halfway through the run
and the night went on
me thinking about my hot Miriam
and jumping in and out of the truck
filling mailsacks
the engine continuing to heat up
the temperature needle was at the top
HOT HOT
like Miriam.
leaped in and out
3 more pickups and into th...Read more of this...
by Bukowski, Charles

Lines in Praise of Mr. J. Graham Henderson Hawick

...Success to Mr J. Graham Henderson, who is a good man,
And to gainsay it there's few people can,
I say so from my own experience,
And experience is a great defence. 

He is a good man, I venture to say,
Which I declare to the world without dismay,
Because he's given me a suit of Tweeds, magnificent to see,
So good that it cannot be surpassed in Dundee. 

The suit is the best of Twee...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz


The Tale of the Tiger-Tree

...A Fantasy, dedicated to the little poet Alice Oliver Henderson, ten years old. 

The Fantasy shows how tiger-hearts are the cause of war in all ages. It shows how the mammoth forces may be either friends or enemies of the struggle for peace. It shows how the dream of peace is unconquerable and eternal.


I

Peace-of-the-Heart, my own for long,
Whose shining hair the May-winds fan,
Making it tangled as they can...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel

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