Show I 1 BURNS AND AHO SCOTLAND YET it worldwide world wide vio e celebration of the birthday anniversary of the beloved bard of auld scotia the remarkable homage of his Country countrymen mento to the poet of the plough the value of his verses holy willil willies S prayer an example of the subtlest sarcasm incidents illustrative or of burns hi humanity the beauty of his love songs influence or of his writings the color he gave to scottish life and character put lores to liable burns burna sun w A fame shall aliver aft elti and ever rm kt ih iha day rim Z abo arf cc i bo ba karas nal scotland yet unique Is tile the glory eory AN which aich it ilia Is admiring countrymen and their descendants shower on the memory or the scottish plou ploughman glint an poet to what man of letters national bard or otherwise or of the pres prescript crit or of any age remote does hla his race of near kin or far pay such constant and unqualified devotion BB as scotsmen do to the bard of ayr par tic on alij calely birthday anniversary ver sary the zill of oc january Jati uary is tho the homage with which they reward isal hla his genius lux for in every town and city throughout the broad brand earth a c company of scots largo or small gallner on that day to do him honor it in feast and danco and long unstinted la Is the love a a broad love too unlike in this tho the nat national lonal characteristic which itt Is so BO illustrative or of Rip linga a line yo are antis of tho the blood less sure bure to bless than to ban which they bear him for fat woo woe to tho the critic who nho dares in any scot tiba company to point to 10 or even to hint at tiny any of the human weak nance by which the iho life of rant ln rovin boblin van as bese the anniversary of the birth of robert hobert rt burns la Is the red loiter letter day inthe the scottish calendar fit at home and abroad what would have been the thoughts of the brilliant hap happy vy d impost tinned fen fictive minded intensely amzona emotional I 1 m marth irth loving hen ch t and alid independent i young scotsman Sc of the he auld toon a 0 ayr abo v ho brought his hia count countrymen n of e cultura and of caro care to his feet by his him 9 Elca neatest test ambition r for 0 r cuir auld Scot lands sake T to c hang ing a i sting nt at lit hod had he dreamed that a century af after 1 r his death hla his namo name would be souna ed AN ith praise akin to worship mom lill in almost very every hamlet on the globe little did lift hs think although he himself pro that lie would bo be better appreciated prec precia ted A hundred years hence that on the AN ingo of the four winds of the lai cai th his hia name and fame would be borno borne over the seas to tho the uttermost ting sin in the lie follow follon ing verse Is a rare and delicious bit of 0 alie essence of tho the subtlest sarcasm maybe thou lots lota fleshly thorn roset besot thy servant een and morn lent ho be awro high and proud should turn cause hes bae gifted if 1 sae ao thy lion man I 1 oca eca bo be borne ifft aali thou lift it tho the tendency or of the humanity of burns Is shown in his verses to a mouse and to a mountain delay daisy which were aare composed while the poet was ell at the plough 1 I could point out ft AN rote hla his brother gilbert tho the particular spot pot where each was composed Il tho the plough was it a favorite situation ailta robert for poetic compositions eions and some of ilia 11 best verses were produced at h ie lie he AN as at that exercise john blanc buys buy mr jr chambers who farm brot servant at lil bool jit at the 10 elmo 0 f tho h conklin compos lilon of 0 to a mauro null till lm 1833 20 lives at kilmarnock 11 stated to m me e th il ho recollected tho the incident perfectly poring burns aras hold ing the P UK fh IN till blanc tor for hla his dri artor or al athen lion tho he little was 0 observed biter ved anning ort oft tho the nold field din ulane ne haing tile tho or plough cleaning Zi ui cill tenAl in ban hneil at tho moment wiit was thoughtlessly running prior it 11 to kill IT when burns burn checked hlin him but not berlly lly him what ill the poor had over ever duno done him tho rho poet pact then reamed to lo hla his to grow varv v thoughtful and during tho the TC re ilder of oc uio the afternoon he apjoke lint jn ili the lie he awoke blane blan who slept with till him ond and read tho the potra pot m thou siw the iho fields laid bare and waste and weary aln n inter er coin co ro in last and coslo conto here beneath the bat thou thou thought ht to dwell till crasha tile tho bruer coulter i out through thy coll cell thit wea bit heap a 0 and ila has cost ahm mony a weary acary nib b e now turned out for a thy E trouble r u bl but house or hauld to edict tholo iho atut a wn Lerr sleety nicety dribble and mr chambers says tile the 11 mountain aunt aln dalsy daisy AN was d a CO composed compo m ced us ft the poet has i iclal ed a at t the PI ugh the flold field where lie ho crushed the N wee vee modest and crim L acon oll tipped floN let alls next to that in which lie he turned turne d up the nest of the mouse and both bolli aro are on the farm of oc I 1 I 1 t I 1 I 1 k I 1 R 1 l I 1 I 1 I 1 4 1 1 49 I 1 0 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 N nit I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 7 IN U I 1 I 1 a lel I 1 W 7 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 4 baw it I 1 I 1 I 1 ti I 1 11 L I 1 I 1 II 11 0 I 1 ik avi I 1 JAI I 1 11 1 I 1 qi I 1 I 1 I 1 ji A I 1 4 ax II 11 kt N N I 1 I 1 i 1 lt j V i I 1 N 1 k ROBERT BURNS ends and that the tributes of ills hla own loved native land would be echoed in ili tho the depths of the Afric african aji forest from the plains plain of australia on andias indias coral stand and would ring back AN fill a 1 w lid ild enthusiasm from the iho hills and valleys of the western world to which at one time lie ho almost came cen to tile the con coll lines of the pole chere the miners in tho the klondike w gather round tho the campfire camp fire and make tile the froen regions or of the great and solemn NorthA northwest ring with tho the melodies of tile songs winch s from him mind and alid heart stately mausoleums leunis have been erected in many places to commemorate his lire life and wok and personality and an innumerable slat sta lies tile the finest examples of the sculptors tom uit art have be been on ael act up all over tho the world but bul this constantly swelling paean of the universal admiration and love of nf his countrymen and of the AN world orld Is ig the greatest monument of them all perhaps tho lite fact that tho the life of D burns urns was full of hardships and dibi disappointments I and that hla his genius and personality were triumphant over the coldness of oc a local world that with a a most remarkable agility recognized his talent but tit nt the same time turned a frigid shoulder towards his to lift ift himself into a better material state IS Is a reason rendon for this remarkable adoration ile he had been kicked and cuffed arid and keenly did his ultra ultrix sensitive nature surfer buffer from the lite plots and attacks c of f his bli en emlea towards AN whom hoin he barly barr ly it if ever turned in the spirit of compto mlee to suitor buffer and to amille to grin and hear bear it la is one of the suie ways for a a scot to win aln the admiration of ills follows fellows burns kept on smiling amid higi hi misfortunes and more ho he kept 0 on n singing bluffing and it did riot not castle to 11 bilm I 1 T 11 in any literal vay may to practice tin tile injunction n regarding the iho turning or of I 1 the he ni e I other cheek instead lie employed his a pen in the of some or oc the most scathing examples of tai caintic verse verge which AN aich the has ever been emi employed to built build who can tell how much the terrible satire mitch kumf pennel under tinder the lite title of italy holy willies prayer I 1 helped to lift the Scotti scottish bli mrk kirk from it old time niti nano nasr the origin of this famous compoli composition tion is i thus told by an authority gavin li hamilton amilton ibn file friend of ilia peet hod bad brn bran denied tile benedit or n the iho ordinances of nf the cherb because lio lie was ablog I to io auvo made a fournoy on oil the hi sabbat it anti to have made inide ohio nn of 0 his take in some nom pola s foul crom f itin iho birden on another sit adan NV william illiam VI 1 er one of aho lh mido made himself somo somewhat that ili hi the case came lp 11 im IL 11 areat pretender pk to lu sanctify ant an 1 a mickler boticki for outward accoo poor mon man he unfortunately fact coill it f ed the of tile tho poet as no ho vaa a arid otterlo citler iv maae too froe frae no with the iho anney in ili big ht hanl hands tte pe turning drunk front from olio eno h ho 0 f fell e 11 into a ditch and lied died from ox cx I p g s n re tho the fearfully literal exposition of at the iho ot of olec tion in tile iho first vac makes the flesh creep croce i 0 i thou atha in the iho heavens dost bolst dwell tha n no it boat thiril sends ano to 10 heaven nn all ton to holl hell A omay glory and no fortio efti vid or if ali dono done afore clicc 1 blam and fir t iwho Iw ht chun k thou eliou jiwat left irn in that thai I 1 imi am title afore for tit eliy filsht I 1 lr und and A barnin a ajril orl c fig emiil lit tu to W 11 t thin ai alj djoe w thy hit at al holy a motet mol beset I 1 Moss giol and still shown to anxious inquirers by the neighboring pe jeaa 12 antry vee modest crimson lipped flower tined met ON mi e in ili un oil evil evi hour for I 1 maim busun crush among tile a giouro boure thy slender yiem stem to spare diee tt ec now 1 is past my power thou hou bona bonny Y gern such lit la tile iho fate of artless maid sweet floweret of the iho rural abado hy BY loves simplicity hei het rayd and guileless trust till slid I 1 alku I 1 ke thee all soil cl Is laid low p 1 the I 1 ho dust such la Is tho the fate falo desimple of simple bard on lifes rugh ocean luckless bearrd unskillful lie ho to tf noto the card of prudent lore till billows raze ra and gales alas blow hard and rholin him nor 0 arr tho the beauty of the love pones penn ilitch alch burns gave to the world Is of a grade chich AN aich iia has been surpassed by no writer in tiny any age aee afton water an apostrophe to that beautiful bc river britten rl lUn upon iho file Colls field dairy mold maid the dearly beloved and long ighland mary saddens iu with its won e 1 1 I 1 I 1 ai I 1 I 1 WJ 1 I I 1 I 1 A 1 if I 1 1 I 1 i all r 1 CO cc TAO IX WHICH bunso WAS bont darful cadence the most prospare pro of mot mc atals talc find and aith ith its ha incomparable genele mor ronIng soothes tho the burgin Burel nga of the ale stormiest r infest heart fl J tow 0 w kently gently asgel atton afton among they llroy preen green arnes flow l low gentle ill sing thee a song fens in thy priar lr 31 my aar amarya y s asleep by b thy in ur oil an earn cam fla flow gently afton disturb not net her dream thou lock dove whose echo resounds rno unda through the iho glen to i lid H blackbirds in ili aon 3 on t horny don den thou green crested li pAvIng illy screaming creaming forbear I 1 charge you disturb not my fair S g and the charming classic ota ola the aarts honor of his nife jean armour almour al mour while alone at lovely Ill island building a home tor for her and for their children is a touching proof of tile tho fad fact that hough lc it had passed through many a fiary alory ordeal oril cal lilg its heart beart nas as still full of 0 tend tenderness ernes for far her nho ho vaa mas lift strut first love and M hose ullyse d devotion if through good t opal t and ill 11 in never cv C allowed on a murmur to escape her 11 lips 0 0 tv iv tho the alria tho wind cut blaw I 1 the iho ablest tw ro e abare the bonny laehle hies tho the we loc thern emild woody grow and rivers row antl anti mo mony a hill between lint day aita nty d light my funcas tui cyB night la Is over wr wi my jeun through tho the bundled years and over AN hach lim a sunk eunk into oblivion bince lots I 1 most inott remarkable kable sing tanger cave to tin 1 I world it series ot or lyrics ayi ort binl poem A ii t endurance it which ilich have made his hio larn an ece 1 tn durance and ills pe personality r 0 y be beyond that of any other la in th ill orid cr li 1 1114 history tory lilt hn influence hiu biu grown liki ilett i n arct d ce ills countrymen hay haj m mar arched to battle an and d to death with I 1 magnificence or of fearl v born ot of ili 01 strains ot of scots scota W wha chaa Y hae 1 a acs 4 alch to quota ui carlyle carlyll lr ho aie i i ld da be gutc n I 1 Mr it aiwas tho h voice or of IL whirlwind n A ati j i wa one ot of the very few ew by ti th way over oer killorn carlyle did not rid alij rough shod the th pathos ot of mail fall W wr made to mourn has many misers nila and tyrants heart and the sit bair r tang rugged lines of A mans a ma 1111 11 for a that have spurred d on many mally i wearied life to high and nobl off 0 and to 1110 of cf borok andt fo ho struck the th chuili of if tt tl naf national lonal heart touching touch lne th k ya her anil and there with surprising aft by it 1 mere mention of scotland olland Sr ill hills I 1 is A nn 2 adalet and israni il rani arnit dashing lh colt colar p with ingenuous jn tit if pictures of national flat jon u tam and chu acter working in I 1 n th to h chark and ilij fir N with it 11 which will III tar barj 9 the near arid and im of time till th inilla nili bence of lila ills democratic hav ha alae r ino no small part in th ill up f ili thi sentiments which ha 0 mallu fc jr loved estem land the aal yal id abidin home of freedom it to ta no boni i then ithac aliat scotsmen honor ilif rn i 3 y 0 y lobert bairs and no vi v idar that th tb name of the ahe humble scott t h sanz anc r iraq bai f become lii como A household word her r ili b it anglo saxon samon tongue Is s spoken im ant it zung DAVID DU DUNCAN y |