Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 244
ave us. ROBERT BURNS—A PRIZE COMPOSITION. By Marion Satterlee (Aged i5). The violet blooms both at the door of the lowlycottage and at the gate of the palace; so geniusis found in the plowman as well as in the peer. A striking instance of this is Robert Burns. In the hamlet of Alloway, in Ayrshire,… … January morning in the year 1759, ^rs^ shone intothe birthplace of Robert Burns. Here, at Alloway, in his boyhood, the stalwartfigure of the future poet became a familiar sightto the simple farmers of the neighborhood, as hefollowed his plow and hummed over as he wentsome quaint old Scottish air,…
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