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The following paper was read by the Rev. C. Tate, "Lowland Scotland as a distinct na- tionality came in with two warriors and went out with two poets. It came in with William Wallace and Robert Bruce and went out with Robert Burns and Walter Scott. The first two made the history and the last two told the story and sang the song." Burns was born on January 25th 170 the oldest son of a small farmer of Kincardineshire stock. William Burns his father had gone to Edinburgh as a young man to seek his fortune, but not succeeding very well, he moved west- ward into the county of Ayr. He leas- ed a small farm and built with his own hands a clay cottage to which he brought his young wife, Agnes Brown, daugh- ter of a Carrick farmer, and here Burns was born His father was of a thought- ful, intense character, valuing know- ledge, possessing keen insight and a devout heart but very poor. Even as a child Burns had much slav- ish work. His naturally robust frame was overtaxed and his constitution re- ceived fatal strain. His F houlders droop- ed and he became liable to headaches and periods of melancholy. He des- cribes himself at the age of sixteen as having the cheerless gloom of a hermit with the increasing moil of a galley slave. His fiery temperament craved in vain. for sympathy and from this grew strong temptations and pitiful weaknesses in after year. A consti t_ utional melancholy made him fly solit• ude and as he had a reputation for book knowledge and a certain strength of thought together with wit and humour he was generally a welcome guest in any company. And then too is heart was like tinder and was eternally light- ed up by some goddess or other, and this chronic heart trouble, if I may so call it, along with his passionate social cravings led him into those unfortu- nate excesses which marred his after years and over which time has drawn a merciful veil. I shall not go in to the details of his troubled life, they are doubtless fami- liar to most of you, suffice it to say that coming to manhood he did not prosper in material things notwithstand- ing his hard labour. His farming prov- ed a ruinous speculat on and, giving it up after a time, he moved to Dumfries, where he remained until his untimely death at the age of thirty seven. 91c1 and Reliable Foothill Nursuries THE WiNGIIAM, TIMES. MARCH 5 1914 SOME have been tempted to wish we had known as littie of the actual career 1 11 1 ,NII ' p , " „i \\, Tri i of Burns as we do of Shakespeare or 1 jiL N . 1 even Horner and had been left to read his mind and character oply in the light ,, of i his works, But his poetry was a • 1, • • !' I 11,' 'Fi' s e`emi' ii.d,; i 1 ( faithful transcript of what was best in .* 1 ' ...)11 a.-.4 tilt .)•:., the man and though his stream of song contains some sediment we could wish away, yet as a whole how vividly, clear- 11;3 1:3:Ed In A intrliJlo So Uatil ly, sunnily it flows, how far the good 1;3 Tec4 " HnIt-a-'i:vns " preponderates over the evil. His first volume was published in Kilmarnock in 1786. It contained some of his most celebrated poems and some of his most popular songs, The country was taken by storm, The people talked 01 him from sea to sea, with his poems old and young, grave and gay, learned and ignorant were alike transported. Even ploughboys and servant lasses gladly gave their wages to buy his works He was only a rustic youth but when he lifted his veice to sing all ranks stood still to listen. The baron and the beggar paused to hear. All Scotland fell under the spell of his inspiration. Never was a poet so loved as the common people loved Burns; and no wonder. He notonly sympathised with their wants and trials, the joys and sorrows of their obscure lot, but he in- terpreted them to themselves and inter- preted them to others, and this too in their own language, made musical and glorified by genius. He made the poor est ploughman proud of his station and his toil. for he sang of them and taught him to hold up his head in self respect. If Tennyson is the poet of culture, Browning the poet of hope, Milton the poet of art, Burns is in a very real sense the poet of human sympathy. His heart was in the right place; you can almost hear it throb. He had an eye to see and a heartto feel. The sly jest colleeeed in his laughing eye at sight of the grotesque and ludicrous in manners, the large tear rolled down his manly cheek at sight of another's dis- tress. The tiny field mouse scurrying to cover awakes his sympathy and his heart goes out even to the `'wee modest crimson tipped flower" turned over by his plowshare. 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Stone& Wellintoth Toronto Ontetrio In his poetry there is absolute truth- fulness, intense reality, truthfulness to the objects he saw, truthfulness to him- self as the seer of them, Here was a man, a son of toil, looking out on the world from his cottage door; on society low and high, and on nature homely or beautiful, with the clearest eye, the most piercing insight, the warmest heart; touching life at a thousand points, seeing to the core all the ster- ling worth and all the pretence, the hollowness of the men he met, the humor, the drollery, the pathos and the sorrow of human existence; and ex- pressing what he saw not in the stock phrases of books but in his own speech, the language of his fireside, with a directness, a force, a vitality that tingled to the finger tips and forced the phrases of his Scottish dialect into lit- erature and made them forever classi- gal. Large sympathy, generous enthusi- asm, reckless abandonment, fierce in- dignation, melting compassion, rare flashes of moral insight are there. Everywhere you see the strong intel- lect made alive and driven home to mark by the fervid heat behind it. He owes nothing to the poetry of other lands. He is the offspring of the soil. He is as natural to Scotland as the heather is to her hills. His variety is equal to his originality, his humor, his gaiety, his tenderness and his pathos come all in a breath. The comic slides into the serious, the serions•into the tender and the tender into the pathetic. Burns not only interpreted Scottish life but was the restorer of Scottish nationality. When he appeared the spirit of Scotland was at a low ebb. There had been a century of religious strife, Her parliament had been ex- tinguished. The Jacobite risings had been sternly suppreised. As far as pos- sible all symbols of royalty and nation- ality had been removed. These things had all but quenched.the ancient spirit. Englishmen despised Scotehmen and Scotehmen seemed ashamed of them- selves and their country. A race of literary men had sprung up in Edin- burgh who were colorless as to national feeling, Scotchmen in nothing except their dwelling place. Then in among these man came Burns and with the instinct of genius chose for his subject the Scottish life which they ignored, and who, touching.the springs of long forgotten emotions, brought back on the hearts of his countrymen a tide of patriotic feeling to which they had long been strangers. If Seotchmen today love and cherish their country with a pride unknown to their ancestors, if strangers of all eoun- tries look on Scotland as a land of ro- mance it is owing in a great measure to Robert Burns who first turned the tide which Sir Walter Scott afterwards carried to full flood. All that Scotland had done and suffered, her romantie hitory, the manhood of her people, the beauty of her scenery would have dis- appeared in modern commonplace if she had been left without her two sacred poets. Some one has said "Let me make a Nation's songs and I care not who makes her laws." This is splendidly illustrated in Burne. His songs have bad a large part in the moulding of Scottish charter and life as it 0 to- day. The self respect, the sturdy in.. GILLETT'S LYE EATS D I RT " 110.4- OPENING -rat. Ma erTrion5 itiSio ENVGILLETT COMPANY1.11416 *soots TOFtONTO ONT. wog B. A. KELLY, Esq. IIAGMSVILT,A, ONT., Aug. 26th, 1913. "About two years ago, I found my health in a very bad state. My kidneys were not doieg their work, and I was all run down in condition. I felt the need of some good remedy, and having seen "Fruit -a -dyes " advertised, I decided to try them. Their effect 1 found more than satisfactory. Their action was mild and the result all that could be expected. 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A prinae can mae a belted knight, A marquis, duke and a' that But an hone4t man's aboon his might; Guid faith he manna fie thatl How 'nn ye bloom sae fresh and fair, Ifo se can ye chant ye little birds, And 1 am weary full o' mire? Is it not remarkable that a ploughboy should have written the most popular lyrics, the most naturally, elegant and truly impaseioned songe in the language? He is the poet of freedom as well as of beauty and love. His "Scots. wha has" sends a thrill of warni Woad through every patriotic heart, Wha for Scotland's king and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw Freeman stand or freeman fa' Let him on wi' me. And for friendship what can with "Auld Lang Syne" Physically, Scotland is a small country. Its population has never been large Its natural resources are far from great. But the Scotch have a greater pride of race and country than most other people and it is to the teachings of John Knox and the songs of Robert Barns perhaps more than anything else that this is due. His songs appeal to all ranks. They touch all ages. They cheer toil -worn men under every clime. He wears the garb of Scotland but he is the poet of humanity. His accent is that of Ayrshire but his speech is cos- mopolitan. He sings in a national dia- lect, but he delivers a message to man- kind. He sings the songs of the heart and the heart is the same the world over, yesterday, to -day and forever. "Certainly wherever the English tongue is heard, beneath the suns of India, amid African deserts, among the squatters of Australia or in our own loved land; wherever men of British blood would give vent to their deepest, kindliest, most genial feelings it is to the songs of Burns they spontaneously turn and find in them at once a perfect utterance and a fresh tie of brotherhocd, not in polished cadences but utterances as direct as laughter or tears. There is the vehemence of battle, the wail of woe, the smiles of meeting the tears of parting friends, the gurgle of brown barns, the roar of the wind through the r ines, the rustle of the waving grain, the thunder on the hills. All Scotland is in his verse. Let who will make her laws, Burns has made her songs -songs which her emigrants recall the world over songs in which maidens are woo- ed and by which mothers lull their belies to sleep. They have passed into the very air we breathe. They are the links, the watchword, the masonic sym- bols of the Scots race. compare We can hardly realise what an influence these few verses have had not only on Scotland but on the whole English speak- ing world in fostering an appreciation of human life and the worth of rgal manhood To him the heart of man is so big that the world cannot fill it as you see in his "Epistle to Davie • It's no in makirr. muckle mair, It's no in books, it's no in lear To make us truly blest. His charity of judgment and sympathy with his fellow man come out in his "Address to the Unco Guid" Tho' they may gang o kennin wrang, To step aside is human. Ile sees ;Nith the clearest eye the hard- ening effects of sin as he write?, to his young friend I wave thu quantum o' the sin The hazard o' concealin, But, oh it hardens a' within And petrifies the feelin. Where are the joys of the dcmestic henrt set before u , as in The Cotter's Sate rdae Neght, "the simplicity and beau ar of li.nna life." His wee bit inele blinking bonnily. His clean heart etane, his thrftie wifie's smile, The lisping infant pratting on his knee Does a' his weary carkin care Burns had a tender, loving, unselfish heart, with what pathos and tenderness he sings "To Mary in Heavan" 0 Mary! dear departed Ovule! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Or again when he sings "Flew gently, sweet Alton" My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet river, dieturb not her dream. Fur disappointed love there is "Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon" where he chides nature for being et: of harmony wit'i himself, 04•44*12.4...22,V2Z w2.4.”*.a.410.02.14-2, atch Your Liver. If It Is Lazy, Slow or Torpid Stir It Up By the Use of rAlituirn's Laxa-Liver Pills. 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