Robert Burns - To a Mountain Daisy by Danny Letham published on 2014-01-25T00:39:33Z Of these three, probably only "To a Mountain Daisy" is usually heard in the mainstream Burns repertoire. While it is in the customary Scots Tongue, the other two that I have chosen are in Standard English, which indeed was the language of much of his work. All three are illustrative of Burns the Son Of The Soil rather than Burns the Patriot or Burns the Political Animal: although today it is possible to ascribe political sensibilities into the two "English" ones, 18th Century Scotland was a very different place from 21st Century Britain. For that reason I think it unwise to assume any political motive in Rabbie's writing of the present pieces. However, if the cap fits today ... Genre Poetry