Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07
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ON THE DEDICATION OF A STATUE TO BURNS
George William Curtis.
(ConHnned.)
(Conhnned.)


feeling but the refrain of all Scotland To what other
given tranhgue the country of his birth and lover
Every bird and flower every hill and dale and river whisper and
repeat his the word Scotland because of
Robert Burns.
But thus casting poetic spell upon everything dncvey
Scotch fostered patriotism which has become poverba
The latest historian Of England that the time Buns birth
England mad with hatred of the Scots But when Burns died
who proud being Scotch
Scotch poughman singing of his fellow and their
lives and loves their language had given them their
eyes dignity they had known
"A for that"
And America is trying to poughmans true.
poets have been by
countries and by the world there poet time
country who has taken the heart what Abraham
Lincoln himself of Them called the plain people, that
lately Edinburgh when he had been dead nearly hundred
years. women going home from work begged look upon his
the love and honor they bore Robbie Bus They
love him for their lands sake and they better Scotchmen
because him. England does love Shakespeare Italy
Dante Germany Goethe with the passionate ador with which
Scotland loves Burns is wonder for here is Aud Scoas
thistle bloomed flower fair that its beauty and perfume
fill the world with joy.
But the power thus depict national life and character and
thus knd mpeshable patriotism be limited by any
nationality In setting words to Scotch melodies Burns
from the exclusive love of Scotland into the of the world
Burns died the with Raphael and Mozart who his
contemporary died only four years before him. Raphael and
Mozart the of lyrical genius kindred who impress
Burns all great poets the unschooed he belonged
poetry Raphael painting and Mozart and
fourth An ndescbable richness and foweike quality
modiou grace and completeness and decac belong them
ALL Looking upon beautiful Madonna Raphael
hear the ripping cadence of Mozart and the tender
songs of Burns They all voices of the whole world speaking
the land Here Italy and Germany
land, individual perfectly recognizable but the
reveals and Eliminates their separate charm that Italian
German Scotch is the universal This
singer whom this statue commentaries the singer of immo
the the morning,
with which the lover his bride and the mother oothe
her child and the heart of people beats with patriotic exuaon
songs that cheer human endavo and console human
exat human life We find the of their power
Until why the the dew-dop pure
rainbow beautiful know why the the best
humanity Whether because he reveals ourselves because
touches the soul with the fervor of divine aspiration whether
world of sordd and restless anxiety he fills
joy puts into rhythmic and permanent the
thoughts and hopes of manwho shall aya But the less
the hearts instructive loyalty the the proof its conscious
he does all these things that he the hamonzer strength
ener CONSIDER How the faith of Chrendom has
upon mighty words of the old Hebrew bards
prophets and how the and neXpresbe divine
purpose has been best breatd parable and poem
forced to surrender expression of human genius
but surely should retain poetry and called
accumulation of literature all but books
among that choice and perfect remainder would be the
Burns.
fifty, them among the memorials great of
different countries and times and have been leaders
mankind, this the poet whose genius
scous but sweet and eevang influence in national life 1t is
power dramatic obvious imposing immediate like that of the
the and the inventor but deep and strong
abiding The soldier fights for his native land but the poet
touches with the charm that makes worth fighting
heart with the fierce energy that makes his
The enarges and orders liberty
the fosters the love of liberty the heart of the c
The mupes the facilities of life but the makes
life better worth living Here then, and flowers and
sward and under the sky here
birds CAROL and children play and lovers whisper and the
human life flows bywe raise the