Halloween (poem)
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"Halloween" is a poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1785.[1] First published in 1786, the poem is included in the Kilmarnock Edition. It is one of Burns' longer poems, with twenty-eight stanzas, and employs a mixture of Scots and English.[2][3]
Halloween[lower-alpha 1]
Upon that night, when fairies light
On Cassilis Downans[lower-alpha 2] dance,
Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze,
On sprightly coursers prance;
Or for Colean the rout is ta'en,
Beneath the moon's pale beams;
There, up the Cove,[lower-alpha 3] to stray an' rove,
Amang the rocks and streams
To sport that night;[...]
—Robert Burns[1]