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A discovery of some impurtanes has just been made regarding a revision of the Paraphrases by Robert Barne Fow peo ple are aware that the post made any such omendatioris, or that these were included in the authorised collection found in present-day Bibles,, Mr John Tenson,
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fries, well known in London as a collector of relics of the great Sonnish, has in bis
from 'n nowspaper, and theso cuttinga scom ion a scrap-book of undated outlines
to esttle sildoubt as to the poet's share in Improving the Paraphrases. Then out tings are reproduced in the Dumfries Courier and Herald, and the matter of rne first pablished in the Pitness. It up- prars that at the result of a disquisition on the Paraphrases in the Free Church Monthly, an Ellisbar h gentleman produc- ed a manuscript volume, in which a number of the Paraphrases were copied, in an on- distinguished hand Hvery other page w»gi blank, and on these were, onrrectione. by, three different writer, the caligraphy of one being descri'ed us "masculina mana-y, mysterious." The Rev. (sforwarda Dr) Bogg on seeing this said: "I should know that very remarkable handwriting. The fast timno I ex it before was in the big n Bible of Jean Armotic, the wife of Robart Barne. The minister referred to the SOLE PROPRIETORS of Talmaims, Ochi, Shinnew, Namazuta and Kami entries of the births and names of the poet's children ands in the Bible, which we sold which will shortly be ready to produce ansat Sotheby's is 19:4 for £1,660, and is new large scale the best Buzon Cosf
The Head and Branch Offices and the in the Burne Museum at Alloway. Agencies of the Company will receive any order for Ceale produced from the above T. MATSUKI, Manager, Hongkong Collierlee.
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striking out the word 'Three' in Article 111 and by substituting therefor the Word 'The and by atrib
each of whom shall being out the words
The post'a alteration, though not numerous, give grace and dignity to feeble linee. For exemple, the second verse of the fiftieth Paraphrase originally road :--- These bodies, then-corrupted now—
Shall uncorrupted rise: Mortal they fall, but ried to live
Immortal in the skies.
Burne's version is
Those bodies that corrupted fell
Shall uncorrupted elec,
And mortal forms shall spring to life
Importal in the skies.
The opening lines of the twenty-sixth Paraphrase read :-
Ob ya that thirst approach the spring
Of ere flowing blika,
Which the poot changed to:-
A
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The poet'e alterations were not always wholly adopted by the Comunittes of the Assembly. In the sixth Paraphrase the following wore the original lines:-
His bought with verdura amila, Though deeply fixed his spreading roots
Unshaken stand awhile,
Yet, when from Heaven his sentence fles
Bo's hurried from his place.
Burns wrote:--
Fair in the Garden to the Sun
His boughs with blonom smilo,
Part resident And, deeply fixel, his spreading roots
in'ör 'Dear the Colony of
in the "striking out the seme Article and also be strik words each of whom must be perm¬
perm nently resident in Great Britain in Article 1
115
Should the Resolution he passed by the required majority it will ha subinitted for cenfirmation as a Special Resolution to a Second Extraordinary Meeting which will be subsequently convent
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G. C. MOXON,
Managing Director, Hongkong, 22nd February, 1907.
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
Unshaken stand awhile;
But forth the sentence files from Heaven
And sweeps him from his place.
Tho nembly rejceted the word "blos. som," and substituted "ihat" for "ånd'
in the last line,
These changes are most interesting and the second cutting fe editorial comment on the discovery and an extract from a later igo of the Fras Church Magazine referring to the very precious and carious volume, which appears to be a mansoript copy. of poems.. proposed for admiselon among the Paraphrases prepared... by the convenor of the committee, Mr
THE THIRTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY James Brown." It seems that a lithog MEETING of Shareholdara will be raphed facsimile of the suggested alteration held at the fices of the Undersigned at in the old version of the thirty-fifth
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