25 January 2022

Happy Birthday, Burns

Nasmyth, Robert Burns, 1787


Robert Burns was born on this day in 1759.

TO a LOUSE

O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
An’ ev’n devotion!

Robert Burns

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