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1759–1796

Robert Burns

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The poet who wrote Auld Lang Syne.

Robert Burns was a poet.

He was born in Alloway in 1759.

He wrote in Scots and in English.

People still sing his song Auld Lang Syne.

Burns Night is near his birthday, 25 January.

He spent his last years in Dumfries.