A Portrait of Robert Burns Robert Burns

Letter № 268 · CCLXVIII

To Mr. Thomson


August 1793

SONG. Now rosy May comes in wi' flowers.[235] So much for Davie. The chorus, you know, is to the low part of the tune. See Clarke's set of it in the Museum. N.B. In the Museum they have drawled out the tune to twelve lines of poetry, which is ---- nonsense. Four lines of song, and four of chorus, is the way.[236]

Footnotes

  1. 235. Song CCV.
  2. 236. See Song LXVII.
Recipient
Mr. Thomson
Dated
August 1793
Source
Project Gutenberg #18500 — The Complete Works of Robert Burns (ed. Allan Cunningham)