The Highland monthly - National Library of Scotland

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in every sense a child of the century, and this, with
the tenderness, the passion, and the energy of his verse,
have secured to him that powerful hold on his countrymen
that he continues to possess. More pathetic, however,
than even his most touching poem is his life, but it can not
be told here. He died on July 21st, 1796, affectionately
tended by his wife, and it is only a few years ago, and
within a few hours of each other, that the last two survivors \
died who had seen the long procession move slowly
onwards towards the last resting place of the poet, and one
of whom had heard the awkward squad fire over his grave.
[to be, continued.]
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