![]() I want four stanzas you gave me but three, and one of them alluded to an expression in my former letter so I have taken your two first verses, with a slight alteration in the second, and have added a third but you must help me to a fourth. Your last verses to me have so delighted me, that I have got an excellent old Scots air that suits the measure, and you shall see them in print in the "Scots Musical Museum," a work publishing by a friend of mine in this town. The moment I read yours, I wrote the following lines: ![]() Here is their correspondence: – Jan 3, 1788, The two carried on a correspondence as "Sylvander" and "Clarinda," and in his note on SMM#186, he wrote, "This song by Clarinda." His lines were composed to finish her thought and match it to the two-part melody. The revision is not a poem, but a song he matched it to an air by William McGibbon, "The Banks of Spey," and it was published as song #186 in The Scots Musical Museum in 1788. Also he wrote the 3rd line of the 2nd quatrain. ![]() She wrote the first two verses here, he the last two, dropping her third in the revision. Andrew Calhoun - This is Burns's revision of "Talk Not of Love" by Agnes McLehose.
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