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Perhaps, indeed, their very desultoriness is the charm of his songs: "I take up one or another," he says in a letter to Thompson, "just as the bee of the moment buzzes in my bonnet-lug." It crops out a good deal in Burns's Letters, and even necessitated a certain flunkeyism on occasions, through life. Yes, there is something about Burns peculiarly acceptable to the concrete, human points of view.
I take up one or another, just as the bee of the moment buzzes in my bonnet-lug; and do you, sans ceremonie, make what use you choose of the productions. Adieu! etc. 26th January 1793. I approve greatly, my dear Sir, of your plans. Dr. Beattie's essay will of itself be a treasure.
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