Widow MacFarlane's lamentation for her son.
[Scotland? : s.n.,
1853?]
Dated from internal evidence - Hans Smith MacFarlane and Helen Blackwood were hanged on August 11, 1853, in Glasgow, for the murder of Alexander Boyd.
In one column with an illustration above the title.
First lines read: On the Banks of Clyde I happened to wander, / In the month of August, when flowers was in bloom; / On the beauties of nature my mind it did ponder, / I heard an aged female who was making sad moan.
Ballads, English
Murder
Executions and executioners
Grief