Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

421 . Epitaph on a Lap-dog

IN wood and wild, ye warbling throng,

Your heavy loss deplore;

Now, half extinct your powers of song,

Sweet Echo is no more.

Ye jarring, screeching things around,

Scream your discordant joys;

Now, half your din of tuneless sound

With Echo silent lies.