Happy birthday, Burns.

Nasmyth, Robert Burns, 1789

Robert Burns was born on this day 1759.

One night as I did wander,

When corn begins to shoot,

I sat me down to ponder

Upon an auld tree root;

Auld Ayr ran by before me,

And bicker'd to the seas;

A cushat crooded o'er me,

That echoed through the braes.

Robert Burns