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The Birthday Ode was written by Burns while in Edinburgh. He had attended a dinner in the city in order to celebrate the Birthday of Charles Edward Stuart, ‘the king across the water’.

January 25 marks the birthday of Robert (Robbie ... he also laboured on the farms. Burns published his first book of poetry in 1786. He died in 1796. Creating hundreds of poems, songs and letters ...