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From a Photogravure by W. Drummond Young, from the Painting by Alexander Runciman in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. By permission.

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PAISLEY: ALEXANDER GARDNER
Bublisher by Appointment in the late Rure to a

The

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THE

POETICAL WORKS OF

ROBERT FERGUSSON

WITH

BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION

NOTES AND GLOSSARY, ETC.

BY

ROBERT FORD

PAISLEY: ALEXANDER GARDNER Publisher by Appointment to the late Queen Victoria

ROBERT FERGUSSON.

BORN 1750. DIED 1774.

His stay so brief, like visit in the night

Of some kind Brownie known to ballad fame,
With true Promethean spark he, modest, came,
And to "The Farmer's Ingle" put a light,
Which ever since has burned so classic bright,
That Burns e'en took a "kin'lin'" from the same,
To raise on Cotter's hearth the cheerful flame,
And grace the leisure of his toil-worn wight;
The Pupil's picture soars to higher flights

Of thought, and nobler images, which show,
By contrast, darker shades and stronger lights;
The Master paints in tones so real and low,
You scent the very "kail by chimley cheek,"
And "buttered bannocks" that on "girdle reek."

-"GEORGE UMBER" (Wm. Findlay, M.D.).

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