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(Continued from Pago 2)

true. That, gentlemen, is what stampa Burns as a master in the affairs of the heart. There is ft- tle poetry which has ever left hall- mark on texturo no nearly com- monpince. It la this fact which makes him the one great pool In our language; It is this fact wilch. makes him a genuinely popular poet, one readily beloved by the unlettered no less than by the learned and by numbers of people like myself, for whom Burns is the only exception to the rule that if, they like verse at all, they like bad versc.

The appreciation of poetry is not a thing made to order, and most people do not like poetry. But, I repeat, most Scotsmen like Burns. Nay more, they are jealous of the fame and reputation of their National Bard. He stirs the heart of every one of us and his works have undoubtedly had an enduring influence on our na tional life and character for he has, above all things, bequeathed to the generations a heritage of courage and comfort.

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having such a pleasant duty to perform this ovoning, replying for In brothorhood Ilk other grect, the lauses. Burns, as we all know, An' koop the memory greon! was Idolised by them, which was

O' him wo kon,

omphasised on the occasion of his Whose verse still throbs wi' first visit to Edinburgh, His trou- warm heart-beat Thro' count-ble was, like many wee single lads, lesa men. (Applauso).

hero, he did not get married #qou Gentlemen, I ask you to rise and enough. He loved family life and drink with me a toast to "The his weans; he was often seen at Immortal Memory of Robert Eliisland playing by the

To his wife, Burns."

with is bairns. Jean Armour he wrote the most! natural and beautiful of all his love lyricn;

The Lassies, Mr. G. M. Young was entrusted with the pleasant duty of prop a ing the toast of "The Lassius." He said: Chieftain of St. Andrew's Society and Gentlemen, Our entlist and happlest moments are linked with womankind and no excuse therefore is noted for tay- self or anyone else proposing the! tonat of the Lassen.

Passing from childhood (10 poet's early verse

"She dresses nye sae clean and

nent

Baith decent and genteel And then there's something la

her gait

Gars any dress look weel." many cases describes our first romantic feeling about the bonnie Insges.

Later we may single on one who ean only be described as

"Fair Empress of the poet's

·ROUl"

followed by most of us with the well expressed sont ment

To make a happy fire-alde clime

For weans and wife

Is the true pathos and sublimo Of human life." This we all feel is the greatest joy of all. (Applause).

(Continued on page 12). . Burns rightly placed the lasses in their proper place when writ-

(Applause). A Poet of Universal Significance. Burns was a poet of universal algnificance, but he achieved that algnificance through his intensely personal character and quality, both of which were specifically Scottish. From our standpoint might be said that his universality Is possible only through his pre- elsely national view-his paro- chial emphasis. But Scotland's honour is not that she at least raised a poet that only sho could understand, but that she raised a poet who was Scottish in every beat of his heart, yet commandeding: the homage, affection and under- standing of mankind. His mes- ange is one which appeals to the hearts of men quite apart from the considerations of space and time, nationality, class or creed, and the burden of that menange is that the greatest things in the world are freedom, manliness and brotherhood. He spoke not for one class, but for all classes and that all classes might be one. (Hear hear).

And that la why at this time of year, men meet the wide world over to eclebrate the birthday of one who might well be called the world's puet.

"Auld nature swears, the love ly dears

0:

Her noblest work she classes

Her prentice han' she tried on

An' then she made the lassen 0,"

I give you the toast of "The Lagars." (Applause).

The company having raised their glasses and drunk to "The Lassics,"

The Reply.

burn

"Of a the nirts the wind can blaw.

Idearly like the west,

For there the bonnio lassio Ilver,

The lagale I lo'o best;

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By fountain, shaw or green; There's not a bonie bird that sings

But minda me o' my Jean." I will close with the words!

wroto which Professor Shirp about Burna songs, many of which were about the losses:

"So purified and ennobled by Burns, these songs embody human. emotion in its most condensed and aweetest essence. They appeal to all ranks, they touch all ages, they cheer toll-worn men in every cilme. Wherever the English| tongue is heard, beneath the suns of India, amid African desorts,

the western on

prairies of America, among the squattors of whenever Anatralla,

men of British blood would give vent to. their deepost, kindliest, most genfal feelings, it is to the songa of Burns they spontaneously turn and find in them at once a perfect fresh tie of utterance, and a brotherhood. It is this which forms Burns' most enduring claim on the world's gratitude."

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