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Robert Burns

Should auld acquaintance be forgot…

Even people who claim they know nothing about poetry can recite . We will never know how much of the Hogmanay classic ‘Rabbie’ Burns was responsible for; he never claimed the ballad as his own, but without him, it would almost certainly have been lost. Robert Burns

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