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-Robbie Burns,...T
Scotland's heritages•run deep in the
blood of its children no matter where
", they .maybe in the world, .and nothing
brings their blood and pride to a fervour
more than the mention of Robbie Burns.
Tomorrow, the 2Sth, of January, is
the birthday of Scotland's national poet,
a poet whose works tell of the simple
feelings of life and echo the struggles
and toil of the common man.
Known as the Plowboy Poet, Robbie
Burns was born in 1759 .in, Alloway
Parish, Ayrshire in what he referred to
as an "auld clay biggin". The oldest of
seven children, Robbie lived an exhub-
erant albeit a hard life. He. lived in
poverty, wrote with passion, loyed with
vigor., and like a true ScotsnWk, drank
with relish.
Struggling to preserve a dying farm
with his father he went to the fields at
13, and though the work was viciously
hard and in itself rewarding it did bring
himinto contact with' his first love, and
subsequently began his,•literary career
"The cheerless gloom of hermit, with
the unceasing toil : of galley -slave,
brought me to my sixteenth year, when
love made me a poet." Of "course that
love was Nellie Kilpatrick, ` who also
worked on the farm, and whd he wrote
Handsome Nell for.:
Robbie was educated, stpdying,under
John Murdock and he read all of the
English classics of his time.
After his father died in 1784, Robbie
and his brother Gilbert, attempted to
make a go of it at another farm, and
although." their :endeavors ,in agricul
ture failed, it was during this time that
Robbie was writinghis best poems.
• The failing farm life, enhanced plans
Robbie had made to venture to Jamaica,
but fate intervened "and he wound up. in
Edinburgh instead: A volume of his
works were accepted by a publishing
company in Kilmarnock in 1786, and the
success of his poems brought him into
the higher circles of Edinburgh life. A
second and enlarged issue of his poems
was published bringing him 'a hand-
some sum of money, some of which he •
sent to Gilbert on their farm, Wander- •
ing through the West Highlands,
Robbie 'soon discovered hemissed the
gaiety of.Edinbufgh and returned there
after his brief sabbatical, but this time
the novelty had worn off and life proved
to be a bit more difficult again.
He acquired a job as excise man,
inspecting and levying taxes on goods,
and rented a farm in Ellisland, He
married. sweetheart Jean Armour there
and wrote Tam O'Shanter and To Mary
in Heaven while farming'there. A move
to Dumfries extracted some of Robbie's
best songs from him, but the pub life
also sapped the strength from the young
man. Robbie Burns died in 1796 of
rheumatic fever at the age of 37.
Another great Scottish , author Sir
Walter Scott offered this description ,of
Robbie Burins:., "His person was strong
and robust, his manners rustic, not
clownish; a sort of dignified plainness'
and simplicity which received part of its
effect perhaps from one's knowledge 'of
hisextraordinary talents...I think his
countenance was .more massive than it-
looks:in any of the portraits...There was
a. strong . expression of sense and
shrewdness in all" his lineaments; the
eye alone, I • think, • indicated that
poetical.temperament.- It was large and
..of a dark cast, : and 'glowed When he
spoke with feeling or interest. I ' never
saw stich another eye in a,.hutiian head,.
though I. have seen the most distill-
, guished men . in: my :time. His .conver-
sation expressed perfect self-confidence
without the slightest presumption:"
Some. of Robbie Burns' world known
works are Auld Lang Syne, . "Scots Wha
Hae wi' Wallace Bled, Holy Willie's
Prayer,:., The. Cotter's ;Saturday :Night
(about and for his'father), The Banks
o'Doon, My Heart's: in. the Highland
and blow Gently,, Sweet : Afton. Other
'quotations from his works have become
common, like "Oh, wad some power the
giftie gie us,. To, see oursels;•as others
see us" from To' .a Louse Man's
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inhumanity to roan, Makescountless
thousands mourn' from Man Was Made
to Mourn; and of course `Oh, my luve's
like a red, red rose That's newly spring
in June; Oh, my love's like a melodic
That's sweetly played in tune, from A
Red, Red Rose..
The unpolished : Ayrshire plowman
grew to become the voice of Scotland
and one of the world's most eloquent
song writers, and on his birthday
Scotsmen the world stop to remember
him and their roots.
...because every
child has the
right to smile
1979 International Year
of the Child
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