. The national Burns, including the airs of all the songs in the staff and tonic sol-fa notations. resent instance, however, he rejectedthem, though repeatedly urged, with determined resolution. Withevery respect for the judgment of Mr. Thomson and his friends, wemay be satisfied that he did so. He who in preparing for an -Hunt attempts to withdraw his imagination from images of death, willprobably have but imperfect success, and is not fitted t stand in theranks of battle where the liberth ngdom are at issue. 01 ach I have finished mj Bong to Saw ye my Father! andI is you «ill bo . Thai then
. The national Burns, including the airs of all the songs in the staff and tonic sol-fa notations. resent instance, however, he rejectedthem, though repeatedly urged, with determined resolution. Withevery respect for the judgment of Mr. Thomson and his friends, wemay be satisfied that he did so. He who in preparing for an -Hunt attempts to withdraw his imagination from images of death, willprobably have but imperfect success, and is not fitted t stand in theranks of battle where the liberth ngdom are at issue. 01 ach I have finished mj Bong to Saw ye my Father! andI is you «ill bo . Thai then is a syllabi much for the expression of the air, is true ; but allow me to say, thai thi i lividing of a dotted crol .1 crotchet and a quavei i nol a greal matt< i : however, inthai 1 have no pretensions to cope in judgment with I -peak with confidence; but themusibusiness where I hint my ideas with the utmost diffidence. The old verse- have merit, though unequal, and arepopular: my advice is to set the air to the old words, andlet mine follow as En -. Here thej FAIR iny waud-ring. At evu - ing the wild woods a - No more a-winding the course of yon river, And marking sweet flowerets SO fair :No more I trace the light footsteps of pleasure,But sorrow and sad-sighing care. men thi of Bannockbum wen troops were inured to war. and familiar with all its sufferings anddangers. On the eve of that memorable day their spirits were withoutdoubt wound up to a pitch of enthusiasm suited to Cb< occasion—apitch of enthusiasm at which danger becomes attractive, and the mostterrific f leath are no longer terrible. Such a strain ol aunt tins heroic welcome may be supposed well calculated toelevate - I raise their hearts high above fear, and t nerve theiitii the utmost pitch of moral exertion. These observations might beillustrated and supported by a reference to the martial poetry of allnations, from the spirit-stirring strains of Tyvtseus to the war-General Wol
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