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Rabbie Burns II

Posted January 25, 2009, 17:01 ET Comments Off

The 250th anniversary of his birth today, and nothing of Burns on WETA, that I heard in any event. Mozart instead, as this was his birthday too. After listening to Mozart for a spell I feel just as moved as if I had heard a talented typist give a concert on a Remington.

When I arrived at McGill from the West, I had not yet visited Europe. Many of my fellow classmates had already done so, but when pressed some told me that they had been to Scotland only. A grim thought.

And yet…listening to Green Grow the Rashes O, one can understand how the song was so popular that it gave its name to an invading army and in time to an entire people.

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