Their Tribute
"Deep m the general hearts of men His power survives." CVERGREEN garlands- round the Z^ Octogan statue of . Robert Burns the other Saturday reminded passersby that Dunedin Scots were paying tribute to the anniversary of their immortal poet. ' In the evening the skirl of pipes from His Majesty's Theatre ' betrayed a "gathering of the clan," m the form of the Burns Cltfb's concert. Naturally — especially when speaking of Dunedin — one must attribute a Burns memorial gesture to the patriotism of the Scots, but really and truly the hearts of all British kin are of one ' accord m perpetuating the memory of the great ploughman poet. That is, if; we all would be conscientiously faithful to the grand masters of English literature. Burns was a; vernacular poet, and as such iii's works carry the glory of the Gaelic tongue on through the - ages.. ': :. , . \ Reading. Burns! one is carried straight to the Highlands where the spring of life pulsates with the power, defiance and .gaiety of peasantry. He had a' swift and trenchant mind, able to communicate., itself like, light*;: ning or like •sunshine, m verse which ■■-: had the free music of wind' or rUniungV water, or the sad expressiveness of mist o'er the heather. Nor need we look only to those of his poems where behind lurks the punch-bowl;, for a manifestation of loving fellowship and tenderness, not only for man and woman, but for all his dumb friends. There was no poet, perhaps, less moral m his own life than Burns; yet there is none more explicitly a moralist m his writings.
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NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 17
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