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pupil. When not at school, the boys helped the father with his 
work in the fields.
The school was closed some months after the boys had begun 
attending it, and William Bums persuaded his neighbors to invite a 
clever young man, Murdoch by name. Murdoch taught their 
children language and grammar.


Robert was a capable boy. He became fond o f reading, learned 
the French and Latin languages. His reputation as “untutored”, 
which he himself helped to create, was false, for he had read 
widely both in earlier Scottish poetry and English. His favorite 
writers were Shakespeare, Steme, Smollett, and Robert Fergusson, 
another talented Scottish poet (1750-1774). Bums started writing 
poems at the age of seventeen. When he wrote in English, he 
wrote as a cultivated English poet would write, and his Scottish 
poems were not naive dialect pieces, but clever manipulations of 
language varying from Ayrshire to standard E-nglish. He composed 
verses to the melodies of old folk-songs, which he had admired 
from his early childhood. He sang o f the woods, fields and 
wonderful valleys o f his native land. Bums had a deep love for 
Scotland, its history and folklore. The poet was deeply interested 
in the glorious past of his country. He sang the beauty of his native 
land where he had spent all his life. One o f such poems is “My 
Heart’s in the Highlands”.
My Heart’s in the Highlands
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer,
Chasing the wild deer and following the roe.
My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I go.

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