A BURNS ANNIVERSARY
Sir,—
When wild war’s deadly blast was blown, With gentle peace returning; With many a sweet babe fatherless, And many a widow mourning. . . . I take these four lines from Robert Burns’s, poems. In these days how appropriate they are. Burns’s poems, songs, epistles, and addresses are known all over the world. He deals with all subjects, great or small—liberty, freedom, justice, love of mankind—aye, and wliat lessons and parables he draws from the simple mouse, and the mountain daisy. As January 25 was the anniversary of his birth, how is it that the wireless did not mention a word about this gifted poet?—l am, etc., Mornington, January 26. J. J. T.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25444, 27 January 1944, Page 6
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114A BURNS ANNIVERSARY Otago Daily Times, Issue 25444, 27 January 1944, Page 6
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