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194 MEMOIR OF JAMES BOSWELL.
" The people's deep wailing, the trumpet's shriU tone,
Were the breathings of sorrow for him that is gone ;
And yon dark plumes of death that did mournfully wave,
Deck'd the bier that bore on their lov'd chief to the grave.
" When the train of lone mourners arrived at the path,
That leads to the desolate mansions of death,
O ! marked you each horseman lean sad on his sword.
When the corse slowly passed of the chief he adored.
" And mark'd you each manly heart heave with a sigh ;
And mark'd you the tear-drop that gush'd in each eye
Of those who were robed in the garments of woe,
When they saw him in Death's dreary mansion laid low.
" Thy halls, Auchinleck ! are all desolate now.
Aye ! roll on in sorrow, in solitude flow ;
For low lies thy bard who so sweetly did sing, —
Thy chieftain so true to his country and king." *
Sir Alexander married in November, 1799, Grace, fifth
daughter of Thomas Cumming, banker, Edinburgh, repre-
sentative of the ancient family of Erenside. By this marriage
he became father of one son and three daughters. Grace
Theresa, the eldest daughter, married Sir William Francis Eliott,
Bart., of Stobs, and became mother of the present baronet,
with other issue. Grace Jane died in childhood, and Margaret
Emily, the youngest daughter, is wife of Major-General Vassall,
and resides at Balhary, Perthshire. James, only son of Sir
Alexander Boswell, was born in December, 1806. He studied
at Brazenose College, Oxford, and after succeeding to Au-
chinleck resided chiefly on his estate. In 1830 he espoused
his cousin, Jessie Jane, elder daughter of Sir James Montgomery
Cunningham, Bart., of Corsehill ; of which marriage were born
* See the Poetical Works of Sir Alexander Boswell, Bart., with
memoir, by Eobert Howie Smith, Glasgow, 1871, 12mo.