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'tThe simple Bard. rough Mt the rustic plouph.

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effort of the Imagination to endow it with the
powers Of speech, and to suppose it cxclaim.
ing:
Connected eowk! puf'd up wi windy pride!
This mony a year I we stood the flood an tide;
An tho wi crazy cild I'm sair forfeairn,
Illb be a brig when ye're a ~shapcless cuirn."
And having imagined this, the supercilious
reply Of tho New Brig vas of course heard -
"Fine architecture? ,rowth, | need not saw t'o't!
The Lord be ihankit that we've tint The gate OF!
Gaut, ghastlv, ghaist -nlluring edifces,
Hanging with tire tnlng jmi, like prcripiccs;
Mansions that would disgrace the building taste
# any mason, reptile, bird or beast"
II is a It lc singular that the poetic prop' Nv
of burns, ,la, the Old Brig would he a Brig
when the new one hecama a "sinpelc>s cairn,'
is aboIt to he realized. The new Brig, since
the construction Of the AYR Railway. which Ter.
mina'r, nc,r II, is found ton narro'v for the in.
crease nj hl% sjucsS, and is TO he i4kp, dorn.-
tbs Bridge was buili !" IT'S. Tn "Od
Bri re" was erected in 1855, and 70 ,ks as II Il,
might stand as much longer.
Before leaving the Brig INV attention was
arrested by what with us woilh he regarded. IT
not patented, as an "InprovcI W. sl,iny Ma.
chine" At lcas, a dozen wasl.'nbs were pla.
ced along The shore Of tho river Ayr, in which
AS many Iemiles, sumo old and ugly, and o hers
young and pretty, were "pnnndlnl cln,lcs''
with their feet! | lnv, heard tn It the Sco'cl,
asses, who have large "Bakings,' knead their
bread IN the same nlnner; the truth Of this,
however. ] cannot voucI, ; but that saw them
dincing in wash-tubs without stockings or gar
tiers, is certain.
Within a mile Of the village Of Tarholtnn,
near the river Ayr, is the scene of BuRN's las
truly affecting interview with MARY ga pBsLL.
1t was Ola Sund ", in MAY. Their mutual faith
was pligli'ed, first by laving their hands in the
,,-D ..,,, ..t kt-.
rvs Idle. Preparatory to their marriage, M.
~ visited her friends in Argylcshire, and in re.
turning, fell SEX and died at Grecnock. BURNS
retained through life the most devoted remem.
brance Of this early attachment. Mr.. Lock
HART, who, from frequent interviews with the
wi1nw of the Poet, derived many interesting
facts III relation to BURN ., states among other
things that many years after his marriage, and
on the anniversary Of the death of "IIlgh.land
Mary" after working hard ali day in the fields,
though mach out Of health, he wandered into
the barn-yarl, where he remained SO long that
Mrs. Ii. alarmed at h $ absence, went repeated.
y and begged him to come in, which he promls.
ed to do, but renamed stretched upon a mass o
straw, with his eyes fixed upon a beautiful pla.
net, that shone like another moon, until IA late
hour. On entering the house, he called for his
desk, and Immediately wrote the following sub
lime and pathetic lines:
"Thou lingering Star with lesseninr ray,
Thd. low st to greet the carly morn:
Again thou Usher st in the day,
Ny Mary, from M soul was torn.
Oh Merry! dear departed shade,
Where IS thy place Of blissfnl restf
Sect thou Thy lover, lowiy laid
Hearst thou the groans that rend hs breast?
That sacred hour can | forget,
Can forget the hailow'd grove,
Where, by the winding AYR we met,
10 1--we one day OF parting love?
Eternity will ne'er office,
Those records dear f TRANSPORTS INST;
Thy image at our las, embraces;
All! little thought We twas our last"
William BURNs, the Poets father. is remcm-
bored AS an Intelligent, worthy, piuus farmer.
but one on whom fortune bestowed more Of her
frowns than her smiles. Al his death, the fam.
lily were left entirely ~desttu.c, but soon rcinov.
ed I'm l1SD from .Aiiowav to Moss gie', where
the Pot found in Gavin Hamilton, (froin him
his mother leased "A iarm) an early and gene.
rons friend. Most ii his Poems, during the three
wears he resided here, from his %, h to his 25ih
year, were written.
am surprised in finding upon the Register
kept for visiicrs AZ the birth place of Burns, the
names of hut very few Amer cans. IN o,king
back fur the last ."ur months | no. iced The names
of three "t my conntrynen, one Of which was
that of Professor Massey OF b 'stun.
The Glasgow aud Ayr Railway, though IN.
d~eriaken wit, serious doubts of ITS answering
the hopes of stockholders, proyes a most proiia.
BILE investment. 1t is f'iv miles in length and
runs through Paisley, Johnston, Lochwinn0ck
LeIth, Kiiblrnie, Dairy, Saltcoats, Kiiwiuning,
&c. which are manufacturing towns: and
through, Irvine Ga beautiful place. T'roon, Monk.
ton, pres'wick, Ayr, Sc. winch are upon the