Happy Burns Night!

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Happy Burns Night!

Postby Govangirl » Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:56 pm

Nothing yet about our most celebrated Scot? :<>

Here's to our Bard! Robert Burns most definitely has his place in modern culture: songs soundtracked in hundreds of films; inspiration for countless of greats from Bob Dylan to Michael Jackson; the first ever person to be commemorated on a Coke bottle; his face on a ten pound note; after Queen Victoria and Christopher Columbus, more statues of him than any other non-religious figure; Auld Lang Syne recognised as one of the top three most popular songs in the English language; his poetry sent into space and some of literature’s best-loved modern classics motivated by his works. All that and a body of work that is still relevant after more than 200 years and which reminds us how sharing a common bond of kith and kin is what is most important in life.
And that is the tradition that is constantly under attack today, trying to turn us all into a sea of soulless consumers, without a past or a purpose or an identity. Well no, don't allow it - here's to the immortal memory!! Sae let the Lord be thankit.
Blow away the dreams that tear you apart
Blow away the dreams that break your heart
Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted
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Re: Happy Burns Night!

Postby Martin » Sat Jan 25, 2014 8:40 pm

My love is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June :
My love is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I :
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun :
And I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only love,
And fare thee weel a while !
And I will come again, my love,
Thou’ it were ten thousand mile.
Ouch !
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Re: Happy Burns Night!

Postby Govangirl » Sun Jan 26, 2014 1:29 pm

These are some of the most beautiful words ever written Martin. They always bring a tear to my eye as does:

'Had we never loved sae kindly,
Had we never loved sae blindly,
Never met—or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.'
(Ae fond kiss)
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Re: Happy Burns Night!

Postby Martin » Sun Jan 26, 2014 3:32 pm

That's nice.
Ouch !
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