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To Richard Monckton Milnes, Tom Taylor, and Theodore Martin, the Judges appointed by the Directors of the Crystal Palace Co. to decide on the merits of the Six Hundred and Twenty-one Poems written in honour of Robert Burns on occasion of the Centenary Celebration, this Work is respectfully dedicated in sincere admiration of the high literary attainments which enabled them to fulfil their difficult task.