Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-07-21

popularity When the publication OF nl'
poems brought him fame ana tooh n''', W
Edinburph his head was not turned. lie illet
il pladIv. but yrayey, unafrald and uhIooieu'
He foresaw that the tide of interest III MN
| would turn and ebb and that he would 80
back to the pillow. He never ducked OF poN
ed never in any presence cohcealed Ms w.,
ions, but spoke out at the great mans taDle ~
he did at the Mauchline tavern. Ana Wneh
ne returned to the farm it was not III the
spirit of wounded, disappointed vanity, nut
with hearty preference for the country nle.
lie had one burning ambition. and that was
to be bard worthy of Scotland. ne u!eu
and never knew how splendidly ne hau SUE,
ceeded. Oh, if he could only have known
1t is the old lamentatioh. IL nnahosp lo'iJ
could only have known! If Columbus couiu
only have known! Zone soweth ana ahot ~
reapeth.' His last years looked terribly inc
failure, The Government made him eNcise-
man,-a small salary and very haru Woth H.
His fame brought him visitors, VINO ate y III,
substance and wasted his time. lie would hol
turn his poetic faculty into gold, ana 80 h Luz
yrew discouraged and drank hard, until he
was summed by the friends OF other dayS, anu
finally when gay party was going on III Dulil-
fries an acquaintance met him in the snauo"
ON the deserted side of the street, and Burns
quoted to him the words of the old ballsd:
His old ane looked better than mony ane's new
But now he lets wear, ony way 1t Will mhg, >,
And casts himself down upon the corn bling"
What did this unhappy man leave us? 10
speak only of superior excellence, he leit US
the best satire in the language Holy Wine
PRAYER, the best talk in verse-Tam OShah-
ter, the best description of Scottish NE anu
characteristic Coter's Saturday Night. the
best drinking song-Auld Lang Syne, the Desl
battle ode, Banockburn, and the best love
song, perhaps in any language. This was
the man who toiled like day laborer all his
life, owed nothing to the schools, and died at
thirty-seven. Thank God, it is not for Us to
Judge: it is for us only to be grateful.
'"rhen gently scan your brother man.
Still gentler sister woman;
Though they may gang kennlh "rohs'
To step aside is human:
one point must still be greatly dark,
The moving WHY they do it,
And Just as amey can ye marx
How far perhaps they rue it..
What is our debt to Burns: Not merely the
verse he left us, although that debt is great
indeed. He redeemed common life from It's
vllyarity. lie digniiied labor, he made home
sweeter and love more precious, and threw
over this workaday world an immortal charm
Burns stand for that spirit of manly independ-
ence which was the very breath of life in the
nostrils of the New World. lie was the great
democrat of Europe. lie walked the straight
paths of that feudal land III the spirit OF the
new age-ab.olutey frecand hailed hfar the
coming of Il brighter day. lie felt the terrible
ineu.iatie> of the human lot,
''Not but | hae richer sh IRE
Than mony There.
Blu why should man better fare
And all men Urithcrs:
That is the question that stawg"rS Us today,
and will continue TO trouble every noble ana
tender ,r.;t until the Great leNclln" prorV>e-
of liberty shall have done their perfect work.
lie taught us the true value of manhood.
ais there for honest poverty,
That hangs his head and "a that;
That coward slave, we pass him by,
We dare he poor Tor a mat
For that, and a thai.
Our tells obscure and u that;
rhe rank is but the guinea stamp,
The mans the gowd for a that"
lie has impaired TO us his own serene fla lth
in the coming of the better time.
"Thcn let us pray that come it may
As come it will fora that
That scnse and worth, Ger "A the earth,
May bear the gree, and Il that;
For a that and n that
Its comm yet, fora that,
That man to man, the warl d DER
Snail brothers be for a tina t.
II some where in the world, that spirit land
which may be nearer than we think, this great
sou. is locking down upon our dOlllgs mere to-
dHY. believe Inc. nothing in thema all has touch
ed him more than that his form was WrHpt
about With the stars and >tripe>,-th glorious
ensign of that young republic he siuted from
across the sea.
You, rnen of hi own race who cherish his
fame, and out of the love and SAFER Zee of
ioNal heart have reared this monument to
his nlcmory-you shall be better imeri, ans
for being true Srotchmcn. You have cast in
your lot with us, in Il land dedicated To the
very principle for which Burns sang his tar
nest song. We nave Il great task before Us
still, and you must help us. We must ~e~
that the sublime ideal OF our fathers is reii::-
Ell better year ny year, in IL WIDE and wider
spread Of these blessings of liberty which they
intended 10 secure for Themselves and Their
po>terty. The stream of national life must
be the richer for your coming. Bring us of
your thrift, your energy, your loyalty. We
need them all But brin. us your finer gift.
bring lis your poet, too. He is too great for
Scotland-he belongs to the world ut large.
We will teach our children to stand before
his statue and say with yours This is Rob-
ert Burns, the great peasant-pough
most rarely gifted son of the Scottish race
the sweetest singer of the common JOYS and
sorrows of mankind the world has ever
heard