Rabbie Burns's 250th

Today marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Bard of Scotland, Robert Burns (1759-1796). I think I hear the skirl o' the pipes. Pay a visit to the official Burns site to learn a bit more about the man.













And the poet at work . . .

Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay

Cauld is the e'enin blast,
O' Boreus o'er the pool,
An' dawin' it is dreary,
When birks are bare at Yule.

Cauld blaws the e'enin blast,
When bitter bites the frost,
And, in the mirk and dreary drift,
The hills and glens are lost.

Ne'er sae murky blew the night,
That drifted o'er the hill,
But bonie Peg-a-Ramsay
Gat grist in her mill.