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268 PEEBLESSHIRE.
arm; and a boy with liis hands to his mouth representing
winter.
Helen Muir, daughter of John Muir, chief magistrate of the
burgh, who died about the commencement of the seventeenth
century, had the following epitaph : —
" In Peebles town there dwells a man,
His name it is John Muir,
And Lilias Ker, his loving wife,
Of this I am right sure.
A proper girl these two they had
Of age fifteen did die,
And by the providence of God
Beneatli this stone doth lie.
She was her parents' only child.
In her they pleasure had ;
But since by death she is removed
Their hearts are very sad.
Her name was called Helen Muir,
Both modest, mild, and meek ;
She comely in her person was.
And every way complete.
But here her dust it must remain
Until the judgment day,
And then it shall be raised again,
This is the truth I say.
Then soul and body shall unite.
And never parted be.
To sing the praises of her God
Through all eternity."
On the side of the stone were inscribed these lines : —
" Beneath this stone in ground y^ seed is sown.
Of such a flower, tho' fallen ere fully grown,
As will, when dawns the saints' first spring on high,
Be sweet and pure as the celestial sky.
" Whose looks persuaded more y" others' speech,
And more by deeds than words, she lived to teach.
Hence young she from the sinful living fled,
For safety here among the sinless dead."