Scottish holidays.Burns Night

then
history will forget
Scotland ”

J. S. Blackie

“Burns alone is enough to make us everlasting
friends with Scotland.”
S. Marshak

voice of Scotland” than that of the poet Robert Burns.

A farmer and a farmer’s son , Burns was born at Alloway, Scotland. He was the eldest of the seven children of William Burness, and spent his early years in the two-room cottage his father had built . He was 7 years old, when his father sold the house and began to work on the farm. Here Burns grew up in poverty and hardship.





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was «MY HANDSOME NELL».

O ,once I loved a bonnie lass,
Aye, and I love her still;
And whilst that virtue
warms my breast,
I’ll love my handsome Nell.

and got much of his education from
his father, who

taught his children reading, writing,
arithmetic,geography, and history. Also his teacher was
John Murdoch, who opened a school in Alloway in 1763
and taught Latin, French and mathematics. Then Robert
was sent to the Parish school.

of his verses. The volume was very well received. As

a result of this success, his friends advised him to go to Edinburgh.

In Edinburgh he very quickly became known by the leading people in literature. During his two years stay in Edinburgh he visited many
other parts of Scotland and published 2 800 poems. In early 1788
Burns returned to Ayrshire, met and married Jean Armour. She is immortalized in many beautiful poems written by the poet -

love is like a red, red rose,
That is newly sprung

in June.
O, my love is like the melody,
That is sweetly played in tune.

2) Till all the seas go dry, my Dear,
And the rocks melt with the sun!
O, I will love you still, my Dear
While the sands of life shall run.

3) As fair are you, my lovely lass,
So deep in love am I,
And I will love you still, my Dear,
Till all the seas go dry.

Dumfies where he remained for his rest of his short

life – bad health and shortage of money struck him down, on the 21st ofJuly 1796 at the age of thirty
seven, Robert died of fever.

Robert Burns grave at St. Michael’s Chuchyard in Dumfries