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Description: | Burns and his friend Thomas Sloan prevail upon John Taylor a Local man of influence to get them priority with the local Farrier to attend to their horses which are slipping on the ice. Burns writes the poem to Taylor on the spot as payment/encouragement for this favour, and Sloan attaches a note to Taylor with the same request. (poem no 245)
The poem is written at Ramage's 3, o' clock, an Inn in Wanlockhead in the winter of 1788/9 after Burns has been unable to persuade to local Farrier to turn over the front edges of the shoes of his horse (frosted) to allow him to ride rather than walk on the icy ground.
In this first page of the poem Burns sets the scene with his horse walking rather than flying along because of his iced up shoes. He then goes to a smith in order to fix the horse's shoes to cope with the ice. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1788-01-01 - 1788-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Poem by Robert Burns: 'Pegasus at Wanloc | Go to resource |
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