He seems to have been well acquainted with the lady.Penny Tray wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 3:47 pmJohn Donnelly wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:49 pmHi PT,Penny Tray wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 8:47 am Like to a fading flower in May,
Which Gardner cannot save,
So Beauty must, sometime decay
And drop into the grave.
TO THE MEMORY OF THE UNFORTUANTE MISS BURNS 1791
I wonder if this is the same Miss Burns from your post of 4 september.
JD.
JD,
It is indeed but she was not a relative of the poet. She was a well-known Edinburgh prostitute who was eventually banished from Edinburgh. Burns openly deplored this harshly puritanical treatment of his namesake.
JD.