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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539613" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines in Praise of Professor Blackie</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! the people's hearts are now full of sorrow<br>For the deceased Professor Blackie, of Edinboro';<br>Because he was a Christian man, affable and kind,<br>And his equal in charitable actions would be hard to find </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas in the year of 1895, March the 2nd, he died at 10 o'clock.<br>Which to his dear wife, and his adopted son, was a great shock;<br>And before he died he bade farewell to his adopted son and wife.<br>Which, no doubt, they will remember during life. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Professor Blackie celebrated his golden wedding three years ago,<br>When he was made the recipient of respect from high and low.<br>He leaves a widow, but, fortunately, no family,<br>Which will cause Mrs. Blackie to feel less unhappy. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Professor Blackie will be greatly missed in Edinboro;<br>Especially those that met him daily will feel great sorrow,<br>When they think of his never-failing plaid and hazel rung,<br>For, although he was an old man, he considered he was young. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He had a very striking face, and silvery locks like a seer,<br>And in the hearts of the Scottish people he was loved most dear;<br>And many a heart will mourn for him, but all in vain,<br>Because he never can return to them again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was a very kind-hearted man, and in no way vain,<br>And I'm afraid we ne'er shall look upon his like again;<br>And to hear him tell Scotch stories, the time did quickly pass,<br>And for singing Scotch songs few could him surpass. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I hope e is in heaven, singing with saints above,<br>Around God's throne, where all is peace and love;<br>There, where God's children daily doth meet<br>To sing praises to God, enchanting and sweet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He had visited almost every part of Europe in his time,<br>And, like Lord Byron, he loved the Grecian clime;<br>Nor did he neglect his own dear country,<br>And few men knew it more thoroughly than he. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On foot he tramped o'er most of bonnie Scotland,<br>And in his seventies he climbed the highest hills most grand.<br>Few men in his day could be compared to him,<br>Because he wasn't hard on fallen creatures when they did sin. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, dearly beloved Professor Blackie, I must conclude my muse,<br>And to write in praise of thee my pen does not refuse;<br>Because you were a very Christian man, be it told,<br>Worthy of a monument, and your name written thereon in letters of gold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Topaz+McGonagall">William Topaz McGonagall</a><div class=q>
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For the deceased Professor Blackie, of Edinboro';
Because he was a Christian man, affable and kind,
And his equal in charitable actions would be hard to find 

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