Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-09

manfuIly until the autumn Of that year.
meantime singing many a lustv song io
ina absent wife, and built the lovely rlt
fave which stands embowered in roses
TO this day.
And then was celebrated the simple
hui glorious home coming, when with
rustic rites, and his bonnie lean up1r
HE arm. preceded by a peasant piri
carrying the family Bible and a bowl OF
SALT he marched proudly into his lllc
hone.hcaven beside the windin. NTH.
An evidences agree that 10 the brief
pcriod Of a trihe over two years. be-
tween Whtsunday. 1883. AMI Martin.
mas. 1901. Burns aud nis go1P lean as.
perienced an Eden ol labor uuI love.
despite their final cuiorc. 40 departure
IL was also the period of Burns best
and greatest poetic accomplishment
Bui more children came % them These
must be supported The crops ll,d.
and inevitable rum was approaching
IL was then, when nowhere sl.e on ciI,u
to turn, with no one Oh cIfl'. % defend
him from the wrctchcl Influences OF
such environment, that 20 save his vile
and children from actual want b.. was
forced 10 accept th. government pul-
ton Of exciscmln at tHc heggarly pit
lance OF $50 per yclr The live &C.
maiuing years Of hi li'c, after the poet.
his lean and their three children. Ro.
bert. Francis Wallace 1ld William
Nlcai. removed to tiu humble lodgings.
and then their cottag, home, iu DUN.
fries. checkercd, sad. pathetic beyond
comprehension. are known TO all.
II Is because you see along the witch.
ing valleys ways the Burns Of reality
manly. sturdy weak as you or M
like plghts, generous, ml1uauImous
rtiul, great, that you hugrr aud still
lnrcr mere. You can see uin singing
at hls toll by day or by lhe insic.ncuk
with lean and the BARNS at night. or
still, by the little south window. work
ing away NJ the tiny deal table wncn the
Inspiration came You see him guest
OF lairds OF companion Of colpg rs. and
beloved Of alt. There Is not il all this
iur domain castle, grntumln's scat.
q cabin, or an old roadside iuu, that cx
isted In Burns time, which does not
preserve some relic Of the poet, or some
,:crcd memory Of bis one time pre-.
sencc. The eyes Of your consciousness
may know, all through DImirlys,hirc
and Acknowledgements, 90 th, farm.
house Of some unfccofdgd kindness; at
the next Of some pleasant incident. at
another. Of an odd adventure. now OF
perhaps a foViyah,c registering. then,
OF some blessed help 100 time of need;
again, OF icstNity oi which be was the
NE, and again Of prayer Prayer ffom
Buus' Yes, prayer with the living and
NJ the couch OF the dead, among those
so loWly that somehow those Spiritual
excisemen' who delighted to league the
ost oNcisemnu with "Au'l HOmic'
had no time Tor their "highrr" parl.
ch'al duties TO minister there. Y1u see
him riding about the country on uis Two
horses Pegasus" and peg Nicholson, '
not as cNchcman rapaCious with the
scourgiug instruments of law, but keen
with friendly warnings instead, ever
leaning TO the side Of mercy; saving, not
ruiuing, the ignorant and luWly. You
see HIM, as the better days come on
with curse in your heart on the curse
which cursed his lille, when the hand OF
poverty crushed him, and there was no
helping one to save You see him at
Brow Well with the consciousness Ut
death. s,ilI the most loyabie Of men, and
alone with his Bible there. You see
him carried back to the little cottage to
die and you hear then from the lips Of
{ loyal lean the mighty disprool uf all
sAndyrous tongues IN the one senten e.
! ever g.ouIying the husband AMI man.