The author of Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural ... a Freemason and the suppers started as “a Masonic thing”. “Hamilton drew from Burns’ poetry to craft this tribute to his work.

Robert Burns became a Freemason in the Tarbolton ... Yesterday we commemorated the American Revolution so here a day late is a poem full of Masonic references and symbols composed when the poet ...

One evening in the spring of 1785, Burns and his brother, Gilbert, attended a Masonic meeting in Tarbolton ... as he was draining a field. In the poem, Death has time to sit and gossip with ...