text:  To them will I commit the grateful task of more fully displaying before you decked out by their eloquence the excellences of the poet the genius of the man and to welcome his sons to the land of their father: and I will only ask you in their presence--on the ground which his genius has rendered sacred--on the "banks and braes o' bonny Doon"--to join with me in drinking an overflowing bumper and giving it every expression of enthusiasm which you can to "The Memory of Burns!" Mr ROBERT BURNS rose along with his brothers and was received with enthusiastic cheering