Burns was born at Alloway, near Ayr, January 25, 1759. He died at Dumfries, July 21, 1796. "The simple Bard, rough at the rustic plough, The chanting linnet, or the mellow thrush, Hailing the setting sun, sweet, in the green thorn bush; The soaring lark, the perching red-breast shrill, Or deep-ton'd plovers grey, wild-whistling o'er the hill." -From "The Brigs of Ayr." Sir Walter Scott wrote. "I never saw such another eye in a human head as the eye of Burns, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time." THE POEMS OF ROBERT BURNS THE POET OF RELIGION, AND LOVE EDITED BY JAMES L. HUGHES 99 AUTHOR OF "DICKENS AS AN EDUCATOR, "FROEBEL'S ON WAR CLOUDS," "SONGS OF GLADNESS AND NEW CDH YORK |