Robert Burns was a Scottish poet who lived at the time of the American Revolution. He was a great Patriot and a believer in Freedom. He wrote in a dialect called Lallans Scots, which is almost a foreign language to those of us who don’t come from Scotland. Robert Burns is one of The greatest poets who have ever lived-The Greatest, possibly. He was also an incorrigible womanizer who fathered 9 illegitimate children., plus a few legitimate ones. I am not totally sure how many children he had, but he had a lot of them. By a lot of different women. January 25 is Robert Burns Day. Happy Burns Day!
Happy Burns Day!
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Thank you, Simon 🙂
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I heard Scots twenty-somethings speaking Gaelic at the table next to me in a restaurant in the desert Highlands.
It was like seeing ghosts.
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P.S. Sweet tuneage dude.
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Here is another 🙂
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And now I know we got it from the old country krap
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I’m gonna host a tiny Burns Supper on Saturday. (I gotta have a little fun, in this awful time.). I have a 5 pound haggis, “great chieftain o’ the puddin’ race!”—I ordered some cock-a-leekie soup from Scottish Gourmet, and: I found frozen raspberries! (Walmart, FYI). So I will assay a cranachan, the most delicious dessert in the world.
I’m lookin’ fir a Burns poem I can memorize and recite. A lot of his stuff Is very long and polemical, I’m discovering as I read his Collected Works. I’m glad to know about the Jacobite song!
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He is one poem, I think, called “To a Haggis”, but I think you already know about that one 🙂
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Yes, somebody always recites that at a Burns Supper. It would be incomprehensible to my guests, mostly, because of the dialect, but I’m thinking of just loosely translating the first and last verses.
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A great idea 🙂
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