Representative Poems of Robert Burns With Carlyles Essay On Burns
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This xiiflvyramlric^was composed on horse- back ; in riding in~ThlT~miojdle of tempests, over the wildest Galloway moor, in company with a Mr. Syme, 25 who, observing the poet's looks, forbore to speak, judiciously enough, for a man composing BrucJs Address might be unsafe to trifle with. Doubtless this stern hymn was singing itself, as he formed it, through the soul of Burns : but to the external ear, it should be sung 30 with the throat of the whirlwind. So long as there is warm blood in the ...heart of Scotchman or man, it will move in fierce thrills under this war-ode ; the best, we believe, that was ever written by any pen. BURNS. 29 Another wild stormful Song, that dwells in our ear and mind with a strange tenacity, is Macphersori 's Farewell. Perhaps there is something in the tradition itself that co- operates. For was not this grim Celt, this shaggy North- land Cacus, that lived a life of sturt and strife, and died 5 by treacherie, ' was not he too one of the Nimrods and Napoleons of the earth, in the arena of his own remote misty glens, for want of a clearer and wider one ?
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