text:  These and all the other priceless elements of 'the auld Scottish glory ' he--the national bard--compacted and crystallized into a Poetry which by innumerable points of sympathetic contact carries back into the national heart by ever-conducting issue the thoughts and feelings which itself first gave forth to his plastic genius; and thus there is an eternal interchange of cause and effect to the perpetuation and propagation of patriotism and all that constitutes national spirit and character