The Gavelyte, April 1908

CEDARVILLE COLLEGE. ---------- -------- ---- --·---- Exchanges. Black and Magenta has several splendid short stories. ... everal papers have pursued the plan of having a certain class edit the paper, during the past rr.onth It's a good idAa. Burns As a Poet. BY MISS LYDIA TURNBULL. "Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said grow as we recede from them, and at the rate which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of Boy 1 i_bu_s kis~i~us sweet ~irliorum, their greatness." G1rhbus hk1bus, want1 somorum; I What estimate is to l.Je formed of £,'at~er~us hear!bus sweet kissiorum I Burns-tried by this standard he [\.1ek1bus boy1bus out of the doorum. must be great indeed! Men of the Ex. world will regard him in one way, 8hP- "My, I am so tired, I wish I worshippers of genius in another. had a mule to carry me." I Among his country men many were so I He-"Lean on me, darling."- Ex. htaken with his brilliant gifts that Alma's two orations, printed in re– cent numbers, are good productions. Read the"Author of the Book of .Job" in -the Geneva Cabinet. they would not listen to any defects which marred his character. Some claim him to be Scotland's greatest poet and one of the best men she ever produced. We know what kind Man, (at home) - "Send up a bush- : of a life he lived. It has been said el of oats and a bag of torn." "a man's moral defects are ours to "Yes sir; whom for? know, but it is not ours to judge him "The horse, you blamed fool." I who has them." His poetry was Poor Lot's wife turned to salt, alas! I a faithful transcript of what was Her fate was most unkind, I best in the man, though it contains No doubt she only wished to see some sediment we could wish away, How her skirt hung behind. as a whole, how vividly! bow sweetly Learn somt>tt1ing of Wittenberg's it flows on! . history as dPscribed in the last num- . At the base ,lf all bis power lays her of the Wittenberger. I absolute truthfulrwss; reality and Isn't this ::i.wful- "With so much J truthfulness to thr objeet which he Hickness, we are certainly glad to see j saw. That is what W"rd~worth re– thf' ink wPtl." j cognizPct as Burns' lPa<ling character- '