(k) "Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care, A burden more than I can bear, I sit me down and sigh: O life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, (1) "Guid grant that thou may aye inherit 'T will please me mair to see 't and hear't (m) "When fevers burn, or ague freezes, (p) It's no in wealth like Lon'on bank, – To purchase peace and rest: It's no in making muckle mair; It's no in books; it's no in lear, - "Gie me a spark o' Nature's fire! That's a' the learning I desire: Then, though I drudge through dub an' mire My muse, though hamely in attire, May touch the heart." "To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life." ANSWERS. ⠀⠀⠀ 4. (a) Nelly - Kirkpatrick; (6) Agnes Fleming; (c) Isabella Steven; (d) Ellison Begbie; (e) Mary Morison; (ƒ) Annie Ronald; (g) uncertain; (h) Jean Armour (afterwards his wife); (i) uncertain, but supposed to be " Highland Mary"; (j) “Highland Mary"; (k) the same; (7) Miss Charlotte Hamilton; (m) his wife; (2) "Highland Mary"; (0) Miss Jean Jeffrey; (Þ) Miss Deborah Davies (“lovely Davies "); (9) Mrs. McLehose (“Clarinda ") — Mrs. Jameson speaking of this song says: "It is itself a complete romance, and contains the essence of an existence of pain and pleasure distilled into one burning drop"; (r) Mrs. McLehose; (s) the same; (1) Miss Lesley Baillie; (u) the daughter of a gentleman of Carrick, name not now known; (v) “Highland Mary"; (w) Miss Jessie Staig; (x) Miss Jean M'Murdo; (y) Jean Lorimer; (*) Jessie Lewars. 2. (a) “Death and Dr. Hornbook"; (b) "To a Mouse "; (c) "Address to the Deil"; (d) "The Jolly Beggars"; (e) "The Vision"; (f) "The Twa Dogs"; (g) "To a Louse"; (h) “Address to the Unco Guid"; (i) the same; (j) “To a Mountain Daisy"; (k) “Despondency. An Ode "; (2) "To his Illegitimate Child "; (m) Address to the Toothache"; (n) "Epistle to Davie "; (0) "Epistle to John Lapraik"; (p) “Epistle to Dr. Blacklock." 66 STUDY OUTLINE FOR CLUBS AND CIRCLES. THE aim of the present book is to give the reader such facilities for the study of Burns as will make other helps unnecessary. To assist readers, however, both those who may be content with what is here given and those who may wish to make a further study of Burns, the following outline is drawn up. It will be especially useful to members of clubs and circles who may wish to confine their study of Burns to one or two evenings, and who yet desire in that time to get as much out of their study as possible. It will be useful also to those who wish to know something about the literature on Burns most available to the ordinary reader. 1. Read the “ Biographical Study" as herein given. 2. Find in Burns' poems the particular poems from which the extracts in the biographical study have been taken. 3. Read The Cotter's Saturday Night." 4. Find and read the poems written in honor of (1) Jean Armour (Mrs. Burns), (2) Highland Mary, (3) Mary Morison, (4) Charlotte Hamilton, (5) “Clarinda,” (6) Jean McMurdo, (7) Jean Lorimer, (8) Jessie Staig, (9) Jessie Lewars. 66 66 5. Read “A Mountain Daisy," "To a Mouse," "The Wounded Hare," " John Anderson, My Jo," "Address of Bruce at Bannockburn," Should auld acquaintance be forgot," Sweet Afton," "The Banks of Doon," "The Twa Dogs," "The Brigs of Ayr,” "To a Haggis," "For a' that and a' that," 99.66 Hallowe'en," " Jolly Beggars,' "Tam O'Shanter," "Holy Willie's Prayer." The (NOTE. Not all the poems and songs here mentioned are suitable for reading in public.) 6. Members of clubs and circles, as well as private students, will also find considerable interest in hunting up and reading the poems referred to in our " Students' Notes and Queries." Some of these, it may be remarked, are the same as some of those in the lists above, but many are different. |