The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-04-27
GraSes of the Poets.

Among the immortals of literatur
there never yet, perhaps, was mar
who requires less recommendation /,
his admirers than the author of "Th,
ootters Saturday Night" and "Mary il
Heaven" says the London Telegraph
Burns has now been In his grave fol
nearly 70 years, and ever since the day
OF his death, on the 2lst day of July,
llvo, ms lame has been steadily and
constantly growing. IL is an old saw.
ing that no poet ought TO expect wide
ana universal recognition OF his genius
until he had been dead for at least a
century. In the entertaining and IN
stfuctlVe papers upon the New AS
tronomy, with which Prof Langley has
uonghted many readers OF reoent
numbers of the Century Magazine. the
Writer has resource TO a singular illus
tration In order TO give us an idea how
enormous IL tho distance which sepa-
rates the earth from the sun. To sav
tnatthere Is an interval of05 900, 900 miles
between ihem IL to produce no distinct
oppression upon finite minds. Prof
Langley, however, assumes that n child
OF five years hasthrust his finger into tha
lame OF lighted candle, and bids ns
70 remark that a second of time will
nave 10 elapse before the sensation of
neat, or, In other words OF barnt
nnger, IL conveyed up the chilais arm,
py tne nerve communicating with The
pAse OF the brain, which Is the center
and source Of all feeling In the human
Qody, Imagine he continues, thar the
child standing upon the earth has an aim
long enough to catch hold OF the SIM
ana IN that case moro than 100 Years
would DO required before the sensation
OF heat would be experienced by the
chiid's body. Something OF the same
Kind takes place with regard TO great
poets and their posthumous fame.
nus, Mr. howard Staunton tells us, In
his eulIl0n Of Shakesueare's works, thar
Jury before the editions of Rowe NH
lished In lIO9 and liza, awakened for the
llrst ume general appreciation of the
genius OF the poet of ali time, which nm.
probation was strikingly shown bv tha
'ong succession OF distinpuishad
editors that the eightaan,S
century produced. As regnrds
John Milton, we know that he ne
repted tba an adequate Remuneration
Tor Paradise Lost, and the first coIlee.
i've edition OF his works was not pnb.
isneu until he had been for more than
century IN his grave. When he dIed.
~ io.s, Dean sprat empatically forbade
eno nhlne o, the regiclde Milton TO be
Minister Abbey" At length. In Iss7 .
private citizen was allowed 10 nIaca
Nilton's bust within those saored nra' |
fincts. Such is the change In public |
,pinion," writes DR.. Gregory 10 H.
lohusen, " that have seen sractad -
ne abbey, the bustof u man wbosa
ian was regarded as pollution TO IL,
BECAUSE HEwAs A soorcHMAS.
In this respect Burns has Jared better
,han his lnighty predecessors, Shaks.
'eaIe ano Milton, and simply because |
'e was Seytchman. IL was not OF that |
per.terviM Ncs, which dwolls TO the
North OF Tweed, hat DIR. johnson wroia.
see nations, slowly wise and meanly lnsi
To buried merit raise the tardy bust y 'N'
ccOtiand's TWO greatest poets ara Sir |
Walter Scott and Burns, nor have their /
'ympathotic and enthusiastic comnatri. |
a been slow 10 do both OF them honor
me latter died, as we have said, In i7N6.
% IN 1910 his grave, In ST. Mlohaelis
nurcnt Dnmiries, was opened, aud, TO
|uotp t'roi ohairp's words, "Mon gazsd
,r moment with awe on tho form of
iurns, seemingly as entire as on the
ay when 1t WAS laid In the graveS
huge, cumbrous, unsightlv
lhusoleum had been erected by pub.
2 subscription within short distance
\ the deau poets first resting place.
ne structure was adorned with far
rom graceiul figure In marble, repro.
enting "ihe Muse OF Cola finding the
poet ~ the plow, and throwing her in.
'plied manuo over him. A long epi-
app questionable Latin was added.
ma we 70 Mains OF Robert Burns were
Qfitd beneath. "rhe mausoleum.v ,
ous.ffof Sharp, "unsightly though IL
nns become place OF pilgrimage, :
'4'tovr crowds OF travellers yearly 70 I
n 70 gaze on the resting place OF Scot r