Glen Collection of printed music > Printed text > Poems and songs, chiefly in the Scottish dialect

:sifc
The pain or uneasiness of his breast was some-
times increased by .working too hard.
An irritated state of feeling cannot continue
long without affecting conduct. Some seek solitude
and retirement, others court company for relief
Some are oppressed with indolence, while others
are driven about in incessant activity, or the same
Individual, disappointed in one quarter, turns to
another. Men born with slender pretensions to
genius, but enjoying an uninterrupted current of
health and vigour, may felicitate themselves on
their condition, when they perceive the terms on
which talents are held, and the price which must
be paid before any considerable portion of fame
can be acquired.
The situation of men of genius is less enviable
than the world- suppose, from the splendour with
which the names of a few of them are surrounded.
" My spirits," says our Poet, " have been as dull
and chearless.as winter's gloomiest, days.". They
are too often unfit for the realities of life, and their
brains seem commonly in a state similar to that
of those who are on the verge of madness, or in
die first stage of intoxication. . .- -,
There was in him a tendency to be captivated