id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 18500 Burns, Robert The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham .txt text/plain 354074 31559 89 in his pocket, Burns made his way to Wauchope, the residence of Mrs. Scott, who had welcomed him into the world as a poet in verses lively lived in her girlish years: the good old man was long blind ere he while my mother would sing the simple old song of 'The Life and Age of It is said that one day a friend read to the poet some verses from the And mak thee a man like thy daddie dear. [Burns in these verses caught up the starting note of an old song, of [Concerning this fine song, Burns in his notes says, "This air is name." Burns corrected some lines in the old song, which had more wit, [Burns tells Thomson, in the letter enclosing this song, that he is in turning poet till I got once heartily in love, and then rhyme and song ./cache/18500.txt ./txt/18500.txt