tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-812018460402676230.post8170741923135167548..comments2023-06-21T01:56:50.473-07:00Comments on Robert Burns World Federation President's Blog: Anniversary DinnersCurrent Presidenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17401931528930885364noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-812018460402676230.post-32871731758904305202010-03-28T22:25:48.687-07:002010-03-28T22:25:48.687-07:00OK am really sorry to cross talk on this blog but ...OK am really sorry to cross talk on this blog but I find no other way to make...<br /><br />MINOR CORRECTION perhaps. On The Cotter's Saturday Night page --<br />It would resolve a bit of a mystery if you consider what appears to be a typo in the frontispiece to the lovely Cotter's Saturday Night:<br /><br />You have: <br /><br />Inscribed to R. Aiken, Esq.<br />A cotter was a peasant occupying a cot or cottage<br />for which he has to give service in lieu of rent.<br /><br />Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,<br />Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;<br />Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile,<br />The short and simple annals of the poor Gray.<br /><br />My suggestions:<br /><br />Leave in the first line, but make it clear it is the author's.<br /><br />The other lines are very helpful and appropriate; but are they Burns', or perhaps those of "Gray".<br /><br />The last line, I suggest may be clearer IF Gray is the author, thus:<br />The short and simple annals of the poor. -- ____________ Gray<br /><br />We defer to your edits and can only express gratitude for the access you have provided all of us.keylawkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04134596750620373075noreply@blogger.com