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When gloaming treads the heels of day
And birds sit cowering on the spray,
Along the flowery hedge I stray,
To meet mine ain dear somebody.
Robert Tannahill
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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Tannahill
Born:
June 3, 1774
Died:
May 17, 1810
(aged 35)
Bio:
Robert Tannahill was a Scottish poet of labouring class origin. Known as the 'Weaver Poet', he wrote dialect lyrics in the wake of Robert Burns.
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