Today is Robert Burns Day in celebration of Scotland’s National poet and like many people, we had the traditional haggis, neeps and tatties.  We wondered how much longer Burns would be celebrated as he is becoming less popular now to study by the modern generation in schools.  He wrote 716 poems and songs of which Auld Lang Syne is the most well known.  One famous poem is To a Mountain Daisy celebrating the beauty of nature, and a poignant reflection on the transience of life as he was going through a depressing period.      Here are two verses
To a Mountain Daisy.
Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r,
Thou's met me in an evil hour;
For I maun crush amang the stoure
Thy slender stem:
To spare thee now is past my pow'r,
Thou bonie gem.
……
Cauld blew the bitter-biting north
Upon thy early, humble birth;
Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth
Amid the storm,
Scarce reared above the parent-earth
Thy tender form