Address to Burns

[hatmandu]

It’s Burns Night tonight. I’ve dredged this up from my files for 2002:
Address to Burns

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face
Great poet o’the chieftain race
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place:
Wordsworth, Shak’speare, Scott.
Yon Sassenachs cannae cut your pace -
Ah love them no’ a jot.

In Alloway ye wis a bairn
Your pa a gairdner in Ayr’n
Ye met your

Comments

[htfb]

The cookery associated with browning should be better than that which burns.

[hatmandu]

Exactly my point, sir!

[htfb]

I'm clearly a bit slow. But your verse is very fine. I've borrowed it---with attribution---for the poetry room on my favourite board game server. Hope that's OK.

[hatmandu]

I'm honoured and delighted you like it, especially as I'm normally admiring your own verse in these parts.