ition of his poems ublished there in 1787, and the money derived from this enabled him to aid his brother in mossgiel, and to take and stock for himself the farm of ellisnd in dumfriesshire. his fame as poet had reciled the armours to the e, and having nurly married jean, he brought her to ellisnd, and once more tried farming for three years. tinued ill-success, however, led him, in 1791, to abandon ellisnd, and he moved to dumfries, where he had obtained a position in the excise. but he was now thhly disced; his work was mere drudgery; his tendency to take his rexation in debauchery increased the weakness of a stitution early undermined; and he died a
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