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IN a remarkable and famous passage in Religio Medici, Sir Thomas Browne says, “ There is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion ; and thus far we may maintain the ‘music of the ...

This is a song by Robert Burns. It was written in 1795 and is read here by Joyce Falconer. This song, which had appeared in a number of eighteenth-century miscellanies, was reworked by Burns and set ...