This is a song by Robert Burns. It was written in 1794 and is read here by John Shedden. Burns composed this song on 18 November 1794, and he considered it as something of a self-portrait.

It is dedicated to Robert Aiken (1739-1807), a man whom Burns described as his ‘first poetic patron’. Aiken managed to raise one hundred and forty five subscribers for the Kilmarnock edition ...