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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416110" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Response To Sentiment of Scottish Poets</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In replying to this toast, we have no hesitation in saying that Burns stands pre-eminently<br>in the first rank. His mind was so sensitive to the beauties of nature that he regretted<br>plowing a daisy under, as evinced in the following tender lines :-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">' Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower,<br>Thou'st met me in an evil hour,<br>For I maun crush among the stour<br>Thy slender stem;<br>To spare thee now is past my power,<br>Thou bonnie gem.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was well aware that he was but little indebted to education, and he finely expresses it<br>in the following :-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Gie me a spark o' nature's fire,<br>'Tis a' the learning I desire ;<br>Then though I trudge through dub and mire,<br>At plow or cart,<br>My muse, though hamely in attire,<br>May touch the heart.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He has encouraged many a poor man who was depressed and in despair with the ill assorted way<br>in which this world's goods are distributed with his grand song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The rank is but the guinea stamp;<br>The man's the goud for a' that.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thomas Campbell had a warm feeling for depressed nationalities, and warmly expressed it on the<br>fall of the Polish Patriot Kosciusko :-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">' Hope for a season bade the world farewell,<br>And freedom shrieked when Kosciusko fell.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He had a deep sympathy for Ireland, down-trodden as it was eighty years ago, when he visited it,<br>and gives vent to his feelings in the touching lament of the Exile of Erin:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O where is my cabin stood by the wild wood?<br>Mother and sister did you weep for its fall?<br>And where is the sire watched over my childhood?<br>And where is my bosom friend dearer than all?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tanahill composed while at the loom. His best known, sweetest and most tender song is :<br>'Jessie, the Flower of Dunblane.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hogg, the Ettrick shepherd, composed while tending his flock. One of his finest and most<br>tender pieces is:<br>'Meeting a Bonnie Lassie when the Kye comes Hame. ' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Charles McKay, the greatest living Scottish Poet, is most favourably known by his splendid manly song :</div><div style="margin:10px 0">' The pen shall supercede the sword, <br>Right, not might, shall be the Lord;<br>There's a good time coming-wait a little longer.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+McIntyre">James McIntyre</a><div class=q>
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