Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o' daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea ; Now Phoebus cheers the crystal streams, And glads the azure skies; But ...
James Cunningham (1749-1791), the 14th Earl of Glencairn, was Robert Burns's close friend and patron. Following the success of the Kilmarnock edition, Poems, Chiefly in the Scots Dialect (1786) Burns ...