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ROBERT BURNS - NATURE TWELVE WORKS INSPIRED BY NATURE ALASTAIR TURNBULL BIG RED RESOURCES Contents Introduction 1. Song Composed in August 2. To a Mouse 3. On Scaring some Water-Fowel 4. Admiring Nature in her wildest Grace 5. The Birks of Aberfeldy 6. Castle Gordon 7. The Humble Petition of Briar Water 8. Up in the morning early - (Winter) 9. The Wounded Hare 10. The Gardner wi’ his paidle 11. By Allan Stream 12. Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes Glossary About the Author Also by Alastair Turnbull B ig R ed R esources A ll text , except the words of Robert Burns, Copyright © 2016 By Alastair Turnbull All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Created with Vellum Introduction A Brief Introduction to Robert Burns R obert Burns was born on the 25th of January 1759 in a small cottage in Ayrshire, the first of six sons and daughters to William and Agnes Burnes. He was born into what we would now call “abject poverty”, ......