Excerpt from Robert Burns: Poet-Laureate of Lodge Canongate Kilwinning Years I have come up with you in this room, hallowed by so many associations, to unite with friends and brethren in worship of the great poet of Scotland and the great poet of humanity - Robert Burns. Most auspiciously the Atlantic winds and the steam-power of the nineteenth century - which some say Robert Burns saw inaugurated in Scotland by Miller on Dalswinton Loch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.