George MacDonald (December 10, 1824-September 18, 1905) was a Scottish novelist and writer of children's fairy tales. His best remembered stories include: The Princess and the Goblins and The Fairy Fleet. He began his career as a Congregational minister. He took up writing and became close friends with the well-known writers of the day, John Ruskin and Lewis Carroll. Carroll first recited his stories of Alice in Wonderland to George MacDonald's children, whose delighted response convinced Carroll to publish them.
In David Elginbrod, published in 1863, George MacDonald wrote:
<Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde:
Hae mercy o' my soul, Lord God;
As I wad do, were I Lord God,
And ye were Martin Elginbrodde.> 1824GM001
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1824GM001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). George MacDonald, 1863, in David Elginbrod, bk. I, ch. 13. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 595.