"The dreadful tales of robbers' bloody deeds, / That oft had swell'd his theme while nightly stretch'd / Now crowded on his mind in all their rage / Of pistols, purses, stand! deliver! death!"
A Midnight Adventure
2 entries in ESTC (1790, 1791).<br>
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<u>Poems. By Alexander Wilson.</u> (Paisley: Printed by J. Neilson, for the author, 1790). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW113630701&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>The Poems and Literary Prose of Alexander Wilson for the First Time Fully Collected and Compared With the Original and Early Editions</u>, ed. by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart (Paisley: Alex. Gardner, 1876). 