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The Annalist
rung through the whole assembly with multiplied honours and repeated acclamations . As I had no idea such a thing would happen , I was thunderstruck , and , trembling in every nerve , made the best return in . my power . Just as I had -finished , some of the Grand Officers said , so loud that I could hear , with a most comforting accent , 'Very well , indeed ! ' which set me something to rights again . " * Though flattered for a whileand feastedBurnsas all . the world
, , , knows , received but few substantial favours from his many professed friends and admirers , either in the metropolis , or elsewhere . They allowed him , even to erect at his own expence , a head-stone with an inscription , over the grave of a kindred genius and fellow-mason , the poet Ferguson , —a youth who , after a short and meteor-like course , in which he was gazed at for a time , like Burns , died miserably in the twenty-fourth year of his age . Nor was the of our bard himself
memory honoured by any public monumental tribute till about twenty years after his death , when the mausoleum at Dumfries was erected . True it is , that shortly after his decease , some of his friends in the Esculapian Club at Edinburgh added an iron plate to the tomb-stone which Burns had placed over poor Ferguson , with the following verses on it , slightly altered from one of his own elegies : —
O , Robert Burns ! the man ! the Brother ! And art thou gone—and gone for ever ? And hast thou cross'd that unknown river , Life's dreary bound ? Like thee where shall we find another , The world around I Go to your seulptut'd . tombs , ye great . In a' the tinsel trash o * state :
But by the honest turf I'll wait , Thou man of worth ! And weep the sweetest poet's fate , E'er lived on earth . In 1820 , through the exertions of the late lamented Brother Sir Alexander Boswell , of Auchinleck'f , another temple was dedicated to his honour , at Alloway-kirk , Ayrshire , a spot rendered celebrated by his " Tarn o'Shanter . " Four-and-twenty Lodges in that county attended the procession at laying the foundation-stone , which was placed by the P . G . M ., Sir A . Boswell , who delivered an eloquent address on the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Annalist
rung through the whole assembly with multiplied honours and repeated acclamations . As I had no idea such a thing would happen , I was thunderstruck , and , trembling in every nerve , made the best return in . my power . Just as I had -finished , some of the Grand Officers said , so loud that I could hear , with a most comforting accent , 'Very well , indeed ! ' which set me something to rights again . " * Though flattered for a whileand feastedBurnsas all . the world
, , , knows , received but few substantial favours from his many professed friends and admirers , either in the metropolis , or elsewhere . They allowed him , even to erect at his own expence , a head-stone with an inscription , over the grave of a kindred genius and fellow-mason , the poet Ferguson , —a youth who , after a short and meteor-like course , in which he was gazed at for a time , like Burns , died miserably in the twenty-fourth year of his age . Nor was the of our bard himself
memory honoured by any public monumental tribute till about twenty years after his death , when the mausoleum at Dumfries was erected . True it is , that shortly after his decease , some of his friends in the Esculapian Club at Edinburgh added an iron plate to the tomb-stone which Burns had placed over poor Ferguson , with the following verses on it , slightly altered from one of his own elegies : —
O , Robert Burns ! the man ! the Brother ! And art thou gone—and gone for ever ? And hast thou cross'd that unknown river , Life's dreary bound ? Like thee where shall we find another , The world around I Go to your seulptut'd . tombs , ye great . In a' the tinsel trash o * state :
But by the honest turf I'll wait , Thou man of worth ! And weep the sweetest poet's fate , E'er lived on earth . In 1820 , through the exertions of the late lamented Brother Sir Alexander Boswell , of Auchinleck'f , another temple was dedicated to his honour , at Alloway-kirk , Ayrshire , a spot rendered celebrated by his " Tarn o'Shanter . " Four-and-twenty Lodges in that county attended the procession at laying the foundation-stone , which was placed by the P . G . M ., Sir A . Boswell , who delivered an eloquent address on the