includes the lines:"As melteth snow upon the mossie Mountaines.
So melts, so vanisheth, so fades, so withers,
The Rose, the shine, the bubble and the snow..."
The Augustan Digression in "Tam O' Shanter" [by Robert Burns] includes the lines:
"You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white-then melts for ever..."
Wilson, the Burns Writing Fellow for Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association, said the inspiration behind the poet's previously inexplicable transition into English becomes clear when compared with Bolton's piece.
from Scotland on Sunday: Did Burns steal ideas from an English poet?
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