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Scotland.
least in a deeply dormant condition , —having failed in eliciting any acknowledgment from either Master or Secretary , of repeated inquiries ivhich we had fraternally addressed to them , when preparing the Masonic notice of the hard some time since . AA e are happy , however , to state that , on the occasion of the great procession in honour of Burns , the Lodge in ivhich the poet first saw the light made a sufficiently prominent and respectable appearance , and , when it passed the platform wheie stood the sons of Burns , itsbanner attracted particular observation . For thereon were inscribed the well-known words ,
" One round , I ask it with a tear . To him , the bard that ' s far awa' " A round , a glorious round was given to the appeal , a shout that made the welkin ring , led by the distinguished Brethren , Professor AVilson , AVm . E . Aytoun ( Past Master of the Canongate , Kilwinning ) , II . G . Bell ( also of the Canongate , Kilwinning ) , the sub-sheriff of Glasgow , Mr . Sheriff Alison , seconded by the whole multitude—for every man there claimed to be one of the Brethren of Burns , in a wide and national
sense . Three days after this grand public jubilee , the members of the Lodge of St . James , Tarbolton , met to receive and welcome within their walls , the sons of their immortal Master , —he who had there made his first profession of the Masonic faith , and had shown himself true to the last in his fealty and affection by passing there almost the last moments ivhich he thought he should have to spend before quitting for ever his native hearthand the friends of his soul . To pay all honour to their
, expected guests the Brethren went in full Masonic dress to meet the sons of Burns on their entering the village , and escorted them in joyful procession to the threshhold of the Lodge-room . There ihey were with all ceremony and courtesy received as honorary members of the Lodge . The Right Worshipful Brother , Dugald Hamilton , Esq ., son of one of Burns ' s very earliest patrons and friends , presided on the occasion , and some there were there present old men and old Masonswho bad sat in
, the same place , at the same board , with him , the master-spirit , the mighty genius , whose buirdly form and lofty brow and lustrous eyes tbey yet well remembered as if he were still before them . At such a scene as this , in such an hour , who would not have rejoiced to have been present ? and it is only to be regretted that the event was not made sufficiently public previously , to have enabled the reporter for this Review to have attended .
The proceedings of the evening we understand , were conducted with all becoming propriety and tact ; and what added to the interest of the meeting was , Major Burns singing his father ' s inimitable song , the " Farewell tothe Brethren of the Tarbolton Lodge . " Spirit of the immortal bard , couldst thou have witnessed it , the scene of that night in thine own lowly but favoured haunt , hallowed to all the kindly and noble feelings of humanity , might have yet more delighted thee even than the proud and public preparations and displays of that broad-day jubilee which men of all ranks and classes celebrated for thy sake !
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Scotland.
least in a deeply dormant condition , —having failed in eliciting any acknowledgment from either Master or Secretary , of repeated inquiries ivhich we had fraternally addressed to them , when preparing the Masonic notice of the hard some time since . AA e are happy , however , to state that , on the occasion of the great procession in honour of Burns , the Lodge in ivhich the poet first saw the light made a sufficiently prominent and respectable appearance , and , when it passed the platform wheie stood the sons of Burns , itsbanner attracted particular observation . For thereon were inscribed the well-known words ,
" One round , I ask it with a tear . To him , the bard that ' s far awa' " A round , a glorious round was given to the appeal , a shout that made the welkin ring , led by the distinguished Brethren , Professor AVilson , AVm . E . Aytoun ( Past Master of the Canongate , Kilwinning ) , II . G . Bell ( also of the Canongate , Kilwinning ) , the sub-sheriff of Glasgow , Mr . Sheriff Alison , seconded by the whole multitude—for every man there claimed to be one of the Brethren of Burns , in a wide and national
sense . Three days after this grand public jubilee , the members of the Lodge of St . James , Tarbolton , met to receive and welcome within their walls , the sons of their immortal Master , —he who had there made his first profession of the Masonic faith , and had shown himself true to the last in his fealty and affection by passing there almost the last moments ivhich he thought he should have to spend before quitting for ever his native hearthand the friends of his soul . To pay all honour to their
, expected guests the Brethren went in full Masonic dress to meet the sons of Burns on their entering the village , and escorted them in joyful procession to the threshhold of the Lodge-room . There ihey were with all ceremony and courtesy received as honorary members of the Lodge . The Right Worshipful Brother , Dugald Hamilton , Esq ., son of one of Burns ' s very earliest patrons and friends , presided on the occasion , and some there were there present old men and old Masonswho bad sat in
, the same place , at the same board , with him , the master-spirit , the mighty genius , whose buirdly form and lofty brow and lustrous eyes tbey yet well remembered as if he were still before them . At such a scene as this , in such an hour , who would not have rejoiced to have been present ? and it is only to be regretted that the event was not made sufficiently public previously , to have enabled the reporter for this Review to have attended .
The proceedings of the evening we understand , were conducted with all becoming propriety and tact ; and what added to the interest of the meeting was , Major Burns singing his father ' s inimitable song , the " Farewell tothe Brethren of the Tarbolton Lodge . " Spirit of the immortal bard , couldst thou have witnessed it , the scene of that night in thine own lowly but favoured haunt , hallowed to all the kindly and noble feelings of humanity , might have yet more delighted thee even than the proud and public preparations and displays of that broad-day jubilee which men of all ranks and classes celebrated for thy sake !