I want four stanzas you gave me but three, and one of them alluded to an expression in my former letter so I have taken your two first verses, with a slight alteration in the second, and have added a third but you must help me to a fourth. Your last verses to me have so delighted me, that I have got an excellent old Scots air that suits the measure, and you shall see them in print in the "Scots Musical Museum," a work publishing by a friend of mine in this town. The moment I read yours, I wrote the following lines: Here is their correspondence: – Jan 3, 1788, The two carried on a correspondence as "Sylvander" and "Clarinda," and in his note on SMM#186, he wrote, "This song by Clarinda." His lines were composed to finish her thought and match it to the two-part melody. The revision is not a poem, but a song he matched it to an air by William McGibbon, "The Banks of Spey," and it was published as song #186 in The Scots Musical Museum in 1788. Also he wrote the 3rd line of the 2nd quatrain. She wrote the first two verses here, he the last two, dropping her third in the revision. Andrew Calhoun - This is Burns's revision of "Talk Not of Love" by Agnes McLehose.
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