Seamus Heaney Tribute to Burns
So I bought a collection of Robert Burns' poems today on my way to work. At the very start was a funny and fitting tribute to the Poet written by Seamus Heaney. So i thought i'd share some of it with you (with a link to site i got it from so you can read it all.)
A Birl for Burns by Seamus Heaney
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Old men and women getting crabbèd
Would hark like dogs who'd seen a rabbit,
Then straighten, stare and have a stab at
Standard habbie:
Custom never staled their habit
O' quotin' Rabbie.
Leg-lifting, heartsome, lightsome Burns!
He overflowed the well-wrought urns
Like buttermilk from slurping churns,
Rich and unruly,
Or dancers flying, doing turns
At some wild hooley.
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Copyright © Seamus Heaney
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3...for-Burns.html