Verse used to put the case for and against Scottish independence
ANALYSIS:ROBERT BURNS, the bard of Scotland, was much quoted yesterday in Edinburgh, both to support and decry Alex Salmond’s bid to secure his lifelong ambition for Scottish independence.
But it began with a word of caution from Stewart Gillan, a church minister from Linlithgow, to members of the Holyrood parliament. “Thou hast formed me with passions wild and strong; And list’ning to their witching voice Has often led me wrong,” she quoted the bard, appropriately on Burns’s Day.