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

me > Peasant rue;, aud thence u pass
TO that other consecrated place, within
ruined Dryburgh, where lies the
dust Of a Kindred spirit by his own
Tweed" In addition to these monu- |
ments--to Burns at Dumfries, and to
Sir Walter at Dryburgh Abbey-Scot.
land teens with others erected in honor
of her two most famous sons. The con,
tagion Of raising statues and busts Of
Burns has now extended to England
and also to the continent of North
America. The generous piety OF O
Scotchman has placed a beautiful
bronze statue OF the plowman bard
upon the Thames embankment-as on
Saturday he uncovered the bust in
Poets Corner. Yet 1t Is little remarF =
able that while the broader and me re
generous spirit of modern times nas
permitted Westminster Abbey "a re-
ceive q marble efigy of the az thor of
Death and Or. Hornbook and of HOLY
Willie's Prayer, there IL still 40 lack
OF narrow-minded bigots animated by
tho same sentiments which made Dean
| Spratt exclaim that she you'd never
permit the name of John Milton TO stain
| the walls OF building dedicated to
God" Within the last two wears an an.
peal was made by Mr.. Richard Edg-
cnmbe, in the name of the committee of
the Byron Memorial, TO be allowed to
devote some small surplus funds 70.
maining IN their hands TO tho erection
OF mural tablet In Westminster abbey
10 the memory of the author of Cbilde
Harold. Down to the present time no
favorable response has been given to Mr..
/ Edgoumbe's prayer. The greatest poet
4 despite Mr.. Matthew Arnold's claim on
Il behalf of Wordsworth, that England
has produced since the death of Pope,
has but one monument In the city
which gave him birth-a monument for
which II was difficult TO find site un-
vi few feet of ground In Ham
ilton Gardens was given to the COM
memoration tho noblost genius OF that
Time. 1t VIII DO remomberd that her
Majesty was five years old whom Byron
breathed his last at Missolonghi In 1921,
ooLER1DGE, SCOTT BYRON.
why IL IT," aaka Dean Stanley in his
Memorials OF Westminster Abbey,
THAT poets like Coleridge Burns and
scott are without monuments If By
ron was turned from our doors, many a
more questionable than Byron has been
admitted. Close above the monument
of the devoted Granville Sharp is that OF
the epicurean 81. Evremond. Close be-
meath the tablet OF the blameless Wbar-
ton lies the licontious Congrevs. The
uod-llke gilt OF genius was recognized
the haser, earthly part was left to the
rnerciful judgment OF its creator" The
dean would no longer have occasion 10
ask "Why has not Burns monument
here =" A time will doubtless come
when some private adnlirer of CoIeridge
will place his bust by the side-not OF
wordsworth, who is banished to the
western end Of the naVe-but of his
congeners in the Poets Corner, II will
not long be tolerated that no record of
SIR walter Scott could be found In the
English Santa Croce. AS regards By
ron, however, there Is good reason TO
nope that the same age which has seen
Burns admitted to Westminster Abbey
will remember that the author of Childe
Harold Is one Of the three great English
poets who were born in this METROPOLIS,
and that of the three. Milton alone had
peon deemed worthy of place within
the walls OF our metropolitan abbey,
whlie OF Pope and of Byron, his great
admirer, no record IL found. Who will
venture to gainsay Dean Stanley's SEN
timents that the Godlike gift of genius
entities its possessor TO be reco9nized
within THAT great temple of reconeilia.
ton and silence" which, II 1t holds
no more than small portion of Eng
land's mtghtlest dust, should record al
any rate the proud chronicle of Eng
lands mightlost names. Lord Byron
used TO say that 1000 years would
elapse before these islands produced
another Pope. Be this as IL may, Il is
certain that since Byron was born in
HOLES street, Cavendish square, in l7ss.
London has given birth to none other
such AZ he. When the bust OF Burns is
unveiled in poets corner by a cabinet
minister, and welcomed by the Dean OF
Westminster, surrounded by a crowd OF
sympatbizing witnesses, Is IL not time
FOR Byron so lind place by his side, n
such worshlpper OF Byron's genius Az
Mr.. Richard Edgecumbe or Lord Ros.
slyn would undertake 10 collect sub.
scriptlons, as many shillngs would ia
forthcoming for Byron rs for Burns. In
the meantime IL is satisfactory TO per
celVe that the narrOw-minded intoler-
ance, which long rendered Burns name
hateful to his 'unco guild" fellow-coun-
trymen, Is passing away. Who can
doubt that Westminster Abbey Will be
the richer for the bust from tho accom-.
plished hand of Sir John Steel, which
has just been placed in the spot best iit.
tea 70 receive it--POetB' Corner.