Abstruse References

[dream_weaver]

BURNS' CENTENARY, by Charles Murray(1864-1941)

"I'll be more respected a hundred years after I am dead than I am at present."—R. B., 1796.

"My fame is sure; when I am dead

A century," the Poet said,

"They'll heap the honours on my head

                         They grudge me noo";

To-day the hundred years hae sped

                            That prove it true.

 

Whiles as the feathered ages flee,

Time sets the sand-glass on his knee,

An' ilka name baith great an' wee

                  Shak's thro' his sieve;

Syne sadly wags his pow to see

                        The few that live.

 

An' still the quickest o' the lot

Is his wha made the lowly cot

A shrine, whaur ilka rev'rent Scot

                          Bareheadit turns.

Our mither's psalms may be forgot,

                              But never Burns.

 

This nicht, auld Scotland, dry your tears,

An' let nae sough o' grief come near's;

We'll speak o' Rab's gin he could hear's;

                                    Life's but a fivver,

And he's been healed this hundred years

                                          To live for ever.

[Doug Morris]

6 hours ago, dream_weaver said:

I'll be more respected a hundred years after I am dead than I am at present.

I guess something similar applies to Ayn Rand.  I can't guarantee that a hundred years will be enough in her case.

[dream_weaver]

3 hours ago, Doug Morris said:

I guess something similar applies to Ayn Rand.  I can't guarantee that a hundred years will be enough in her case.

This poem, presumably written in 1896 and published in Hamewith (1900), was a tribute to Robert Burn (1759-1796) by Charles Murray. In what way might Charles Murray have been a tribute by Ayn Rand?

I would caution that correlation, in this sense, is not necessarily causation.

[Doug Morris]

I was not referring to Charles Murray.  I was referring to the idea of someone being better appreciated 100 years after their death than at the time of their death.

[dream_weaver]

Time will tell.

My question may have been better phrased as, in what way could it be viewed as Ayn Rand having paid tribute to Charles Murray.

[Harrison Danneskjold]

Who is An'Ilka and what's a Pow?

[dream_weaver]

Spoiler alert: Charles Murray was the signal engineer from the Chicago terminal requested by Dagny to repair the interlocker.

Touché @Harrison Danneskjold

An 'ilka and a Pow appear to reference back to Robert Burns, the source of the quote heading Charles Murray's peom in the O.P.

 

[dream_weaver]

33 minutes ago, dream_weaver said:

Spoiler alert: Charles Murray was the signal engineer from the Chicago terminal requested by Dagny to repair the interlocker.

Touché @Harrison Danneskjold

An 'ilka and a Pow appear to reference back to Robert Burns, the source of the quote heading Charles Murray's poem in the O.P.

 

 

[MisterSwig]

10 hours ago, Harrison Danneskjold said:

Who is An'Ilka and what's a Pow?

"An' ilka name baith great an' wee"

And every name both great and wee

"Syne sadly wags his pow to see"

Time sadly wags his head to see

That is a curious line. It seems to reference a famous Burns poem called "Auld Lang Syne" and depict Time's head moving side-to-side like an old clock's pendulum.