The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free.

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

Pride went before, ambition follows him.

Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.

Race pride, socialist ideals, and a sincerity as exalted as that of Carlyle's visionaries coalesced in Asa Philip Randolph.