text:  It is consolatory to see that the faults of them whom their people honour grow fainter and fainter in the national memory while their virtues wax brighter and more bright; and if injustice have been done to them in life (and who now shall dare to deny that cruelest injustice was done to Burns?) each succeeding generation becomes more and more dutiful to the dead--desirous to repair the wrong by profounder homage