Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-02-28

my heart light it wad dee"
Five years of letting ony way would hing
Burns life ended 1896 his thirtysevenh There
universal great multitude crowded the
little his burial Memorials monuments biographies of
every kind followed Poets since have sung him of
poet The theme always fresh and always captivating and
year American poet beloved and honored
his beautiful and unwasted sings of Burns he him Wis
the world shall forever him. immortal youth cheeriy
singing his toll in the bright spring morning.
The personal feeling of Longfelow poem that which Burns
There great poet who less
abstraction His human that the heart insists
knowing the story his life and ponders with endless sympathy
1t necessary conceal The key OF
life the struggle of shrinking will tossed between great
extremes poetic genius and sensb intellectual force
conscience and generous smpates side and
tremendous passions the other We indeed know the
power temptation. We pretend determine the
limits of responsibility for nrmiy of WILL We only know that
supreme and ressess the genius be does
absove him from the moral obligation that binds all 1t
would have comored Jeanne Deans she held the soong
Fife her heart know that the "fause lover who her
named Shakespeare Burns Nor there any base
prostitution which would grace sef-indugence
immortal If boy is Ounce school is foolish parent
consoles himself with remembrance that Walter Scott
dull school-boy SCOTS dulness made him
magician 1t the eveng Pooe Nanscs and the Globe
Tavern and reckless life Mauchine and Mossgcl
cndeared Robert Burns manng Just there lies its pathetic
appeal The young who would gid his dissipation with the
celestial gamo OF urns snatche the glory light
him But less and in the deepest
fullest meaning of his words,
"What's done we partly may compute
But know what's resisted"
Except grace said Bunyan Il should have been yonder
ne Granted" says Burnss brother brother
Carlyle nobes plea genius
another, Granted the ship into harbo with
shroud tackle damaged and the pilot therefore bameworthy
been alwse and apowerful but know how
bameworthy tell first whether his voyage has been round the
globe only Ramsgate and the Isle of Dogs.
But unvel to-day and set here for perpetual contemplation
of the citizen whom respectable
looked askance but the of great poet Once
divine than his
profound, that human being beneactor his
The spiritual power poetry indeed like
beauty mmeasurabe and define and describe
the world But without critical careful detail
observation plain first of ALL that he interpreted Scotland
country been revealed by kindred genius Were
suddenly submerged and her people tale her poll
and kings great would histories But
tally CUSTOMS legends superstition language age
gotesque humor the keen agac the simple,
characteristic spirit of the national life caught up
the sympathy poetic genius would live forever the poets
The Scotland sparkles the birds
sing; breezes rustic its Each humorous
beaste cattle and the le sheep softly
gathered this aembracng fold song Over the
battle hymn Scots wha hae wi Wallace bed the solemn
music the Coes Saturday Night Through the
OShanter breathes the of
Aoway daring and astonishing Babel the Jolly Beg
gars is penetrated by the heartbreakng sigh Jessie
Although thou be mne
Although even hope is denied
IT'S thee despairing
Than aught in the world beside"
ITO be eonhnued)