Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-02-21

forced to ask every morning what victory there is said Horace
Wapole, for fear of missing one"
But only politics and the genius Britain
lustious James Watt testing steam argeavc
nventng the spnnngenny, which years Arwgh
would complete and Wedgewood making household beau
tu Fieldngs "om Jones' had been years in print and
Gra Eegy nine years Dr. Johnson had lately published his
dictionary and Edmund Burke his the Sublime and Beau
tu In the year 1850 Garrck Sir
Joshua Reynolds of painters Gbbon dated this the preface
his first work. Hume published the third and fourth volumes of
his history of Engand Robertson his history Scotland
sme London find publisher "Tistram shandy"
Oliver Goldsmith "unfended, solitary oing for the book
sellers his garnet Fleet Ditch but four years later with
Burke and Reynolds Garrc Johnson would the
literary clubs and sell the Vicar Wakefield"
himself from jail 1t of events decisive of the
history and of whose fame usou national possession
But among those memorable than the birth
the of Scotch homes and of all that renowned and
respondent throng soldiers and eamcn; phoo-
piers poets and inventors whose fame filled the world with acca
nation is gratefully and fond remembered than the
Ayrshire ploughman Robert Burns
This great assembly is in large part composed Of his country
YOU elowcizens mostly born in Scotland There
beautiful country and stand here memory and
imagination recall your native land Misty and asetchng
spendors ndwcpt
singing streams and rocky gens and waterfalls lovely wales of
Ayr of Tcvot and the Tweed; crumbng
ancient days abbey and castle and tower legends of gid
ing with 1.-the light that
every hill with its heroic tradition every with story, every
valley with its song land the hacbc and the daisy
land the avero and the curc land Draw youth and
lassics deep, strong melancholy manhood of deep
tender womanhOodth Scotland this native land
And how could you truly transport the home your adop
how beyond the fully and fifty,
by this memorial Of the whose song Scotland? No wonder
that proudly bring his and place here under the Ame
in the chief American city side by side with that OF the
other great Scochman whose genius and fame like the air and the
sunshine local boundary confne. In this Wahaa
nationality will be long before
COMMUNICATED whose genius Enthusiastically national
and broadly UNIVERSAL who speak truly for their country
all mankind Walter and Robert Burns.
This of the reddenng leaf of sunny stiffness and OF
ing especially BELTS this commcmOaon because
this that the poet peculiarly inspired and because the
wild and tender the hayward and gdcnhcartcd is the best
symbol OF his genius The sculptor has imagined him hour
pcnsivc cnnobng meditation when his amid the hush
evening" the falling year. exalted ecstasy passion
yearnng and regret and here rapt in silence just the
heavenly melody mumuring from his lips here he sits and will
1t in October that Highland Mary died. 1t in
October that the hymn Mary Heaven written 1t in
October, aewad, that Burns lost melancholy musing
the anniversary her death drew Vet within
while his soul might have been still lifted in that sorovu
prayer he the rollc,ing rcsisc and immortal of
drinking songs:
% Willie hrewd a peck o'maut