text:  Thus too we have heard the tribute so touchingly paid to Campbell who now sleeps among the sages and the statesmen and the warriors and the poets of famous England; and to him who has a happier and a holier sepulture still--for he lies within the bosom of his own dear native land--to Scott the master-spirit of the age for whom we well may mourn since we dare not hope to look upon his like again! I have now in a few words to entreat your patience whilst I speak of two other Scottish poets whose memory is yet green amongst us--both reared like Robert Burns at the lowly hearth of the peasant--both pursuing like him through every discouragement and difficulty the pathway towards honourable renown--and both the authors of strains which bear the stamp of immortality