The hydraulic press., 1859-03-26
The Rurns Ovation.

donian minstrel could get together, the
25th of January was sacredly, enthusi
astically observed-his name each heart
was beating,-
Each glistening eye and flushing cheek
In light and flame icpeatins.'
The genius Of two hemispheres uni
ted in adding brilliancy to this demon
stration; and every living bard, with
those who vent as noble thoughts in
prose, "fung his pebble on the cairn" .
each year growing higher
'Of him. though dead, undying
Sweet nature nurs ing, bonniest BARN,
Beneath her daisies lying"
In England at the Crystal Palace cele-
bration, which was attended by an i'm
mense concourse Of people, there were
upwards of six hundrerd poems offered
in competition for prize of fifty guineas
The winner was woman, Miss Isabella
Craig, who has thus added another to
the many triumphs of her sisterhood.
Her poem concludes with these lines:
'.The land he trod
Hath now become place of pilgrimage;
Where dearer the daisies of the sod
That could his song engage.
The hoary hawthorn wreathed
Above the bank on which his limbs he flung
While some sweet plaint he breathed;
The streams he wandered near;
The maidens whom he loved; the songs he sung
All, ri are dearl
The arch blue eyes,
Arch but for loves disguise.-
OF scotland's daughters soften at his strain;
Her hardy sons, sent forth the main
To drive the ploughshare through earths virgin
Tighten with it their tolls;
Ard sister lands have learned to love the tongue
In which such songs he sung.
For doth not gong
To the whole world Belong?
Is it not given wherever tears can f3i
Wherever hearts can melt, or blushes glow,
Or mirth and sadness mhgle as they flew,
heritage to all
The most successful and eyeryway
worthyeelebration thus far recorded, was,
in our judgement, the one given under
the auspices of the Burns Club, in Dos-
ton, America At this were present a
larger number of eminent poets and talk
ers-the most catholic minds Of New
England, whose own genial humanity
best fitted them to appreciate that char
acteristic in him whom they were naet
to honor
But the noblest thing in this sponta-
neous and universal ovation is not that a
true poet was thus adequately honored,
for he had already found the fullest ap-
probation in the immense popularity of
his works There is always something
in every popular demonstration which
has deeper meaning than the demon
stration itself We look beyond the
mere singer, Burns, and hail in the COM
mon praise of his manliness, Sin the
fact that his sturdy truthfulness and
broad humanity won pre-ominent recog-
nition,-a sign of lofty promise for the
race, an indication that the watchword
of our times-the cry of equality in its
true conservative sense-is not mere
platitude without vital meaning. Every
where this true meaning which the life
Of Burns has to us Was asserted by lead
ing intellects, who thus openly pledged
themselves to labor in the cause of hu-
man progress, and to stand forever by
the doctrine that the most precious thing
for every man is the dignity and inde-
pendence of his own nature.
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