A Cold-Hearted Old Long Syne? Heaven Forbid, My Heart Is His!
In 1788 Robert Burns wrote the Scottish poem, Auld Lang Syne. The most direct translation is “old long since,” but the idiom has a better meaning in “long, long ago,” or “days gone by,” or simply, “old times.” Auld Lang Syne was certainly not a phrase that was original to […]