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...passes through them changes itself into an articulate melody, not a prodigy, indeed, but a real poet in whose heart resides some ' effluence of Wisdom,' some ' tone of the Eternal Melodies.' " Percival's poetry is characterized by fertility of invention. Invention is a prime attribute of the...

...world can well dispense . . . but a true poet, a man in whose heart resides some of the effluence of tone of the ' eternal melodies,' is the most precious gift that can be bestowed upon a nation." Such a gift was bestowed when Robert Burns was born, and happily upon a people who...