Alexander Wilson Poet Naturalist a Study of His Life With Selected Poems
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"Eppie and the Deil" with its very evident moral, is the story of an old woman who expressed the wish that the devil might take her loom. His Satanic majesty at once complied with her request, but so com- placently did she accept the loss that the zest of the trick was quite gone and old "Cloots," "though he was the devil, For once he acted vera civil," and gave her back her wheel. The third piece to be singled out for careful notice is a song. There is a rare swing, a musical lilt to the ''Ode... for the Birthday of our Immortal Scotch Poet'' that is unusual among Wilson's * Belfast Edition, 1844. It is claimed that the prize was won by bribery by Mr. Gumming, who is said to have purchased forty tickets of admission for his friends on condition that he should receive their votes. wii^n's utkrary writings 139 verses. It has caught the wild, fearless spirit of the day, which laughs "down the priest and the devil by turns." It was set to music for Wilson by a local "Bacchanalian Club," and though we know nothing about the occasion for which it was written we may well believe that Burns himself was present when it was first sung.
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