Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-06-27

tnat ne was meant for something better
ana n06ler. Our hearts beat in sympa.
tiny with him when he says:
It's hardly in a body's power
10 Keep at times from being sour.
10 see how things are shared.
HOW BEST . chiefs are Whiles in want.
Whlle cOOfs on countless thousands
rant,
And ken na how to wairt."
And then more blithely as it were. but
stlii battling hard with fate:-
"A mans man for a'that
Inc rank is but the guineas stamp.
Inc mans the gOWd for a'that."
Tossed about by every wind and
Weatner, common man without title
ivlng In time when rank was every
tn1ng, scOrned and forsaken by his
cOuntrymen for holding some broad
views on the political Questions of the
day, struggling hard with fate to earn a
scanty sustenance, have we not struck
the Keynote which speaks the love that
countless thousands bear him? Nanya
one In the common walks of life. has
FOUND In him sympathizing friend.
Ihose who are poor see in him, one who
mas suffered like as they have. Those
VINO are battling hard with fate are con-
soied by the thought, that this true noble
soul, which had something OF the divine
nature, this heroic spirit had Jared Mo
better. ~,
HE spoke Of Burns, men rude and
rough,
Pressed round to hear the praise Of one.
whose heart was made OF manly simple
stuff,
AS hOmespun as their own"
And when he read, they forward leaned.
Drlnklng with thirsty hearts and ears.
His brOOk-like songs, whom plOry
never Weaned,
From humble smiles and tears"
Slowly there grew tender awe.
Suni!ke DER faces brown and hard.
As IL In him who read, they felt and saw.
Some presence Of the bard."
1T was sight for sin and wrong,
And slavish tyranny to see,
A slght to make our faith more strong
In high humanity"
Il thought, these men will carry hence.
prompting their former life above.
And something OF finer reverence,
For beauty, truth and love-"
Burns spoke the emotions of his own
soul, those common to all men, but
which lie silent in some, waiting for
f0 ~ Hn ho aho
cause them to vibrate. 'He has awakened
the free nature in the weak and friend
less sons of men," 1t is for this that we
love him, for this that we praise himi
His failings were many. it is true. His
life was far from what it ought to have
been. But let us not allow this to prove
barrier between US and him, but say
rather with the poet Whittier
Let him who never erred,
Forget his worth in vain bewailings.
Sweet soul of song! I own nv debt. =
Uncancelled by his failings."
Lament who will the ribald line.
Which tells his lapse from duty.
How kissed the maddening lips of wine
Or wanton ones Of beauty"
''But think while falls that shade be-
tween,
The erring one and heaven,
That he who loved like Magdalene,
Like her may be forgiven
''Not his the song whose thunderous
chime,
Eternal echoes render,
The mOurnful fuscan's haunted rhyme,
And Millions starry splendOr."
"But who his human heart hath laid,
To Natures bosom nearer?
Who sWeetened toll like he?
Or paid to love tribute dearer?
In all his tnneful art how strong,
The human feeling gushes.
The very moonlight OF his song,
Is warm with smiles and brushes"
"Give lettered pomp to teethe of time,
So "Bonnie Doom" but tarry'
Blot out the epics stately rhyme,
But spare his Highland Mary"