carried with them the songs of the poet ploughman and they 
     
     are today familiar words in Scottish homes in every land. . . . 
     
     We are far from the land as we are far from the age in 
     
     which he lived yet among thousands of the people of Prince 
     
     Edward Island the songs and sentiments of Robert Burns are 
     
     household words today. And why? Because in much that he 
     
     wrote; because with poetic witchery he touched and glorified 
     
     the common things of Scottish home life;... because of his 
     
     love ofjustice and right, his hatred of oppression, his scorn of 
     
    
   
   
    
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