He wad hae written A better poem syne - like thie, by gum?
Lang syne, when I was a bit lassie, no twenty yet - " She paused and sighed.
So the moment arrives … you gather around the television and watch the glittering orb descend in Times Square and the toast is given and Auld Lang Syne is sung (kudos to you if you know all the words!).
Ian Maclaren's first sketches of rural Scottish life, Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush (1894), achieved extraordinary popularity and were followed by other successful books, The Days of Auld Lang Syne (1895), Kate Carnegie and those Ministers (1896) and Afterwards and other Stories (1898).
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, For the sake of auld acquaintance be forgot, For the sake of auld lang syne?