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The pent river is at length set loose, the barriers broken by the wear of mingled waters, and the force and the roar of it are amazing. I have alluded to the poet-farmer Burns, a capital ploughman, a poor manager, an intemperate lover, a sad reveller, a stilted letter-writer, a rare good-fellow, and a poet whose poems will live forever.
He had enough of good sense and of clear-sightedness to sweep away every agricultural obstacle in his path, and to make Ellisland "pay well"; but good-fellowship, and the "Jolly Beggars," and his excise-galloping among the hills by Nithsdale made an end of the farmer, and, in due time, made an end of the man. Robert Bloomfield was another poet-farmer of these times, but of a much humbler calibre.
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