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“Auld Lang Syne”

"Auld Lang Syne" (first published 1796 in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, Vol. V) Inferred

Robert Burns (1759–1796) · first published 1796 in Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, Vol. V

InferredFuller writes "I have more time to think of lang syne," using the Scots phrase (meaning "long since" or "times past") that became widely familiar through Robert Burns's song "Auld Lang Syne."

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Documented 1849

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Samuel G. and Anna Barker Ward

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“especially now as in the sad reflux of that great tide of life in which my heart had gone forward with as much force as was left it I have more time to think of lang syne.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller writes "I have more time to think of lang syne," using the Scots phrase (meaning "long since" or "times past") that became widely familiar through Robert Burns's song "Auld Lang Syne."