text:  And I might have stopped here had it not been that I have to-day seen that not the gifted sons alone but also some of the gifted daughters of Ireland have come as pilgrims to the shrine of Burns; that one in particular one of the most distinguished of that fair sisterhood who give by their talents additional lustre to the genius of the present day has paid her first visit to Scotland that she might be present on this occasion and whom have myself seen moved even to tears by the glory of the gathering