Sean Philip Cotter is a reporter covering Boston City Hall and whatever else goes on around town for The Boston Herald. A South Shore native, he previously covered Quincy City Hall for The Patriot ...

Burns wrote this poem during the winter of 1785-6, which was included in the Kilmarnock edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786). It employs the Spenserian Stanza, which was ...