Rustic songs of nature
Tait, Robert1919
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This collection of his verse, in plain and unassuming Doric, reveals Tait’s love of nature, and his sympathy and love for his fellowman, while inculcating at the same time the fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of man.
Main title:
Rustic songs of nature / by Robert Tait.
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Imprint:
Cambuslang : Cambuslang Wingate Burns Club, 1919.
Collation:
160 pages.
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Notes:
HHRobert Tait was born at Barkip, in the Parish of Dalry in Ayrshire, on 20th March, 1874. Around 1894 he moved to Cambuslang in the east end of Glasgow to follow his work as a collier, and was then married to Agnes Fleming, a member of a very old Cambuslang family. Friends in the Wingate Burns Club encouraged him in his literary work. He became an occasional contributor to the local papers, his first venture into print being a poem on the death of the famous preacher, Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, which appeared in the Dundee Weekly News.
Contents:
Partial contents: Poems include: Scotland's National Bard, Sonnet , Vindication of Burns Poem, Man was made to mourn, To a star, Domestic Happiness, Lines on War, The Wreck of the Larchmont, The Bard of the Night, Snowdrops, Autumn, The Sodger's Letter to his Granny, The Bonnie Ayrshire Hills, The Ayrshire Laddie, The Auld Theekit Cot, The Collier's Dream, The Independent Tramp, The Pit Lamp, Tannahill, The New Year, Comrades in War, The Cycle-Makers Last Words (Punning Poem), The Greetin' Wean, Coronation Ode (On the occasion of the Coronation of King Edward VII), Address to an Ayrshire Tattie, The Sodger's Dream, The Orphan's Christmas Treat, Burns Anniversary 1913, Ardeer Explosion (10 March 1913), The Fisherman's Widow, To my briar Pipe (A present from my brother who was killed in action), The Blantyre Explosion, A Poet's Epitaph, The Carluke Hero (L/Cpl William Angus 8th Batln HLI (Lanarkshire Territorials) won the VC on the Field of Battle at Givenchy, on June 12, 1915.
Dewey class:
821.TAITMCG821.TAITR821.TAIT
Language:
English
BRN:
2386703
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