He never went to college yet few as great as he <br />Nor to his name he never had a literary degree <br />He was a Singing Ploughboy he came up the hard way <br />His songs are sung around the World and his legend lives today. <br /> <br />He drunk, loved and made merry and songs and poems he wrote <br />And he had music in him he was a natural poet <br />Though dead more than two centuries in death his legend grow <br />His spirit is still living where the Afton Waters Flow. <br /> <br />He is a literary legend one of the greatest ever known <br />The National Bard of Scotland and surely poetry's own <br />His fame is known around the World far from his Homeland shore <br />And his marvellous poems and ballads will live forever more <br /> <br />He penned the New year anthem immortal 'Old Lang Syne' <br />With 'Should old acquaintance be forgot' it's memorable first line <br />His immortal poems and ballads live to his enduring fame <br />He was the Pride of Scotland Robert Burns was his name.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/robert-burns-was-his-name/
