Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-07-21
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preston of the Individual life. Near
ness is power. You cannot get too close
to your subject, nor too close to the
hearts that you would touch and the
| lives that you would move.
Burns knew well enough how to write
the smooth. elegant English verses that
had been fashionable before him. He
did write them at times, in some fit of
weakness, or when he was urged to
write and hadn't anything in particular
to say. suppose you can find forty
such among his poems. But there
isn't one of them that would have kept
his name alive ten years. He was writ
ing of something he knew nothing
about and the result is that nobody
cares about what he wrote.
Now if Burns had only received that
fine university education which so many
people think it was his great misfortune
to have lacked the chances are that all of
his poetry would have been of this
elegant, good for nothing order. 1t is
not when he tried to be fine that he is
eloquent; it is when he lets himself 90,
in the dialect. The English of the
schools was like a foreign tongue to him.
lie had to learn it but the dialect he
never had to learn. He spoke it before
he knew what learning meant he drew
it in with his breath, yea almcst nth
Liz ui.k Ma"arlav said truly .hae 10
man eve. wrote au tuLurtai y in
euY iaugua@e EXCEPT Tie one he
his cradle. Hose are the
ahaa thousni gnllos into 4apl,
.u m"me0t.o of tremendous excitement
tuAt poetic eApros4i0us have D9
2 d in those moments the soul aiwa,s
speaks in the tongue of its childhood
all other language is forgotten. You
may give Scotchman all the culture Of
the school, until his ordinary conversa-
ton shall not betray his race. But the
FIRST excitement will bctray him. Let
J. \ get angry, and if he ,Wcars he'll
~ II in Scotch. If he falls in love,
.e. VOC in Scotch. When he trlI> a
.af..Iug story, he'll tell it in Scotch.
And If he gets - fou and uncu happy"
he'll sing in >ro'ch."
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