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To ramble through the land
of Burns is an easy matter; but to describe it, so as to make the reader
enjoy it in a description, is a somewhat difficult task. Notwithstanding,
after considerable misgiving, the writer has essayed it, and in following
the footsteps of his illustrious countryman, ROBERT BURNS, from the
cottage of his birth to the scene of his death and burial, he has called
attention not only to the rich natural beauty of the various districts
celebrated by the residence and muse of the Poet, but also to their
historical and traditional associations, and to passages in his life and
writings inseparably connected with them. Having done this, and pointed
out numerous interesting objects, he lays no claim to originality, and
aspires to no higher merit than that of having gathered a posy of other
men’s flowers and bound it together with a string on his own, in a manner,
he fondly hopes, that will interest the reader and make it a not unworthy
contribution to the thought-gemmed literary cairn already raised to the
memory of the Peasant Poet.
A.R.A.
7 GLENCAIRN SQUARE,
KILMARNOCK, AUGUST, 1879. |
