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Title: The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 Vallée, Léon, 1850-1919 Brandl, Alois, 1855-1940 Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: London : The Standard
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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1819 on ; Fanny, a social satire, 1819 ; Alnwick Castle and Bums, after a visit to Europe in 1821; and Marco Bozzaris aboutthe same time. ) Wild rose of Alloway! my thanks:Thou mindst me of that autumn noon When first we met upon the banksAnd braes o bonny Doon. Like thine, beneath the thorn trees bough,My sunny hour was glad and brief : Weve crossed the winter sea, and thouArt withered — flower and leaf. And will not thy death doom be mine —The doom of all things wrought of clay — And v\ithered my lifes leaf like thine,Wild rose of Alloway ? Not so his memory: for his sake My bosom bore thee far and long,His — who a humbler flower could make Immortal as his song. The memory of Burns — a name That calls, when brimmed her festal cup, A nations glory and her shameIn silent sadness up. A nations glory — be the rest Forgot — shes canonized his mind;And it is joy to speak the best We may of human kind. Ive stood beside the cottage bed Where the Bard Peasant first drew breath;
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r-^ p«^ X ■o ^ — 1-5 ■^ <^ CS BURNS. 7019 A straw-thatched roof above his head,A straw-wrought couch beneath. And I have stood beside the pile, His monument — that tells to heavenTlie homage of earths proudest isle To the Bard Peasant given! Bid thy thoughts hover oer that spot, Boy minstrel, in thy dreaming hour;And know, however low his lot, A Poets pride and power: The pride that lifted Burns from earth, The power that gave a child of songAscendency oer rank and birth. The rich, the brave, the strong ; And if despondency weigh down Thy spirits fluttering pinions then.Despair — thy name is written on the roll Of common men. There have been loftier themes than his, And longer scrolls, and louder lyres.And lays lit up with Poesys Purer and holier fires: Yet read the names that know not death — Few nobler ones than Burns are there;And few have won a greener wreath Than that which binds his hair. His is that language of the heart In which the answering heart would speak,

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