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War I deprecate: misery and ruin to thousands are in the blast that announces the destructive demon. But.... CLXXX. To MR. ROBERT GRAHAM OF FINTRY. DUMFRIES, Morning of 5th Jan. 1793. Sir, I am this moment honoured with your letter. With what feelings I received this other instance of your goodness I shall not pretend to describe.
I have taken up the subject, and the other day, for a pretty actress's benefit night, I wrote an address, which I will give on the other page, called "The Rights of Woman." I shall have the honour of receiving your criticisms in person at Dunlop. CLXXVIII. To MR. R. GRAHAM, FINTRY. December 1792. Sir, I have been surprised, confounded, and distracted, by Mr.
Of his election ballads, the best, perhaps, are The Five Carlins and the Epistle to Mr. Graham of Fintry. But these ballads are not to be taken as a serious addition to the poet's works; he did not wish them to be so taken. He was a man as well as a poet; was interested with his neighbours in political affairs, and in the day of battle fought with the weapons he could wield with effect.
Burns was not a party man; he had in politics, as in religion, some broad general principles, but he had 'the warmest veneration for individuals of both parties. The most important verse in his Epistle to Graham of Fintry is the last: 'For your poor friend, the Bard, afar He hears and only hears the war, A cool spectator purely: So, when the storm the forest rends, The robin in the hedge descends, And sober chirps securely.
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