ell was born. He was at first buried in the far corner of St. Michaels Churchyard in Dumfries; his body was eventually moved to its final resting place in the same cemetery, the Burns Mausoleum, in September 1815. The body of Jean Armour was laid to rest with his in 1834.
Burns poetry drew upon a substantial familiarity with and knowledge of Classical, Biblical, and English literature, as well as the Scottish Makar tradition. Burns was skilled in writing not only in the Scots language but also in the Scottish English dialect of the English language. Some of his works, such as Love and Liberty (also known as The Jolly Beggars), are written in both Scots and English for various effects.
Poems
Pupil 1 My Hearts In The Highlands
Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
My hearts in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My hearts in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My hearts in the Highlands wherever I go.
Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow;
Farewell to the straths and green valleys below;
Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods;
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.
My hearts in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My hearts in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My hearts in the Highlands wherever I
Pupil 2 Fareweel to a our Scottish fame,
Fareweel our ancient glory;
Fareweel evn to the Scottish name,
Sae famed in martial story!
Now Sark rins over Solway sands,
And Tweed rins to the ocean,
To mark wher
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