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Thread #161439   Message #3836578
Posted By: meself
03-Feb-17 - 07:20 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Ye Jacobites by Name
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ye Jacobites by Name
I don't know - "adore the rising sun" as an admonition to be taken literally strikes me as, with all due respect, far-fetched. Just doesn't seem in keeping with the oblique phraseology throughout the rest of the song, and does not seem Burnsian more generally. Although, as I think about it, I'm starting to see how it could be taken to mean, Be grateful that you've lived to see another day, and not thrown your life away for a lost cause ... hmmm ....