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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539663" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Burial of the Reverend Gilfillan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the Gilfillan burial day,<br>In the Hill o' Balgay,<br>It was a most solemn sight to see,<br>Not fewer than thirty thousand people assembled in Dundee,<br>All watching the funeral procession of Gilfillan that day,<br>That death had suddenly taken away,<br>And was going to be buried in the Hill o' Balgay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were about three thousand people in the procession alone,<br>And many were shedding tears, and several did moan,<br>And their bosoms heaved with pain,<br>Because they knew they would never look upon his like again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There could not be fewer than fifty carriages in the procession that day,<br>And gentlemen in some of them that had come from far away,<br>And in whispers some of them did say,<br>As the hearse bore the precious corpse away,<br>Along the Nethergate that day. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm sure he will be greatly missed by the poor,<br>For he never turned them empty-handed away from his door;<br>And to assist them in distress it didn't give him pain,<br>And I'm sure the poor will never look upon his like again.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the Gilfillan burial day, in the Hill o' Balgay,<br>There was a body of policemen marshalled in grand array<br>And marched in front of the procession all the way;<br>Also the relatives and friends of the deceas'd,<br>Whom I hope from all sorrows has been releas'd,<br>and whose soul I hope to heaven has fled away,<br>To sing with saints above for ever and aye. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The provost, magistrates, and town council were in the procession that day;<br>Also Mrs Gilfillan, who cried and sobbed all the way<br>For her kind husband, that was always affable and gay,<br>Which she will remember until her dying day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the procession arrived in the Hill o' Balgay,<br>The people were almost as hush as death, and many of them did say --<br>As long as we live we'll remember the day<br>That the great Gilfillan was buried in the Hill o'Balgay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the body of the great Gilfillan was lowered into the grave,<br>'Twas then the people's hearts with sorrow did heave;<br>And with tearful eyes and bated breath,<br>Mrs Gilfillan lamented her loving husband's death. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then she dropped a ringlet of immortelles into his grave,<br>Then took one last fond look, and in sorrow did leave;<br>And all the people left with sad hearts that day,<br>And that ended the Gilfillan burial in the Hill o' Balgay.</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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In the Hill o' Balgay,
It was a most solemn sight to see,
Not fewer than thirty thousand people assembled in Dundee,
All watching the funeral procession of Gilfillan that day,
That death had suddenly taken away,
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