The auld Scotch mither, and other poems, in the dialect of Burns . A ;-^ COPYRIQHr ^^ :cr/VQTOVi vA O: BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY D. LOTHROP & CO. DOVER, N. H. : G. T. DAY & CO. 1873- 76.^ t7^ T4A Entered, according to Act of ngress, in the jear 1873, I5Y D. LOTHKOP & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. MY BRITHER SCOTS IN THE LAND OF MY BIRTH, AND THELAND OF MY FATHERS. POSTSCRIPT. Perhaps this volume needs a single word of explana-tion. In addition to his divine faculty of poetic insightand song, it was given to Robert Burns to hear and tospeak, in his childhood, th
The auld Scotch mither, and other poems, in the dialect of Burns . A ;-^ COPYRIQHr ^^ :cr/VQTOVi vA O: BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY D. LOTHROP & CO. DOVER, N. H. : G. T. DAY & CO. 1873- 76.^ t7^ T4A Entered, according to Act of ngress, in the jear 1873, I5Y D. LOTHKOP & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. MY BRITHER SCOTS IN THE LAND OF MY BIRTH, AND THELAND OF MY FATHERS. POSTSCRIPT. Perhaps this volume needs a single word of explana-tion. In addition to his divine faculty of poetic insightand song, it was given to Robert Burns to hear and tospeak, in his childhood, the sweetest, simplest, and mostpathetic dialect ever used by mortals. This dialect is anelement of touching beauty and power in the best of hispoems. It is hke the dew or song of the lark in the morn-ing ; and the use made of it by such writers as GeorgeMacDonald, and Dr. Waddells recent translation into itof the Psalms, show that it is no dead language. In my fathers library, limited in all directions, but espe-cially in this,—for he was a Congrega
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