Genealogy of the Caverly family : from the year 1116 to the year 1880, made profitable and exemplified by many a lesson of life . ry Campbell, known amongScotlands idols as the Highland Mary. Let us dwellhere for a moment. We are in Scotland; and all of you,my kindred, have Scottish blood in your veins. You well know that Robert Burns, Scotlands mostbrilliant poet, an hundred years ago had fallen in lovewith the Highland Mary; and in parting with Mary,presented to her a Bible. Thence Mary presentlyreturned home here to Greenock, and soon died; hereshe sleeps; and, since 1844, a large free-ston
Genealogy of the Caverly family : from the year 1116 to the year 1880, made profitable and exemplified by many a lesson of life . ry Campbell, known amongScotlands idols as the Highland Mary. Let us dwellhere for a moment. We are in Scotland; and all of you,my kindred, have Scottish blood in your veins. You well know that Robert Burns, Scotlands mostbrilliant poet, an hundred years ago had fallen in lovewith the Highland Mary; and in parting with Mary,presented to her a Bible. Thence Mary presentlyreturned home here to Greenock, and soon died; hereshe sleeps; and, since 1844, a large free-stone slab hasstood at her grave. It is inlaid with three tablets ofmarble. The first tablet contains the image of Robert Burns,bent forward in the attitude of weeping, with a brilliantstar, represented in the marble blazing, as if in theheavens above him. The second tablet represents the scene at their lastmeeting: a Highland scarf hangs over the shoulders ofthe poet, and he is extending to his Mary the historicBible. Mary is in the attitude of bending forward, asshe is just opening her clasped hands to receive thesacred DISCOURSE. 13 The third tablet is inscribed thus: — ©rcctcb- obcr tht (^xnbt of |)tc)Ij[anb IJlarg. IIij Mary, dear departed shade,Mliere is thy place of blissful rest? The circumstances that gave rise to these lines, asmany may remember, were these: Mrs. Burns, at earlymorning missing lier husband, and searching for him,found him near the barn, jsrostrate upon a bundle ofstraw, gazing upon a brilliant planet. She, fearing forhis health, persuaded him into the house. He called forhis desk, and at once wrote the touching lyric, fromM^hich the above was taken, and which began asfollows: — Thou lingering star, of lessening ray, That lovest to greet the early morn:Again, thou usherest in the day, My Mary from my soul was torn!Oh! Mary, clear departed shade, Where is thy place of blissful rest?Seestthou thy lover lowly laid? Hearest thou the groans that ren
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