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Auld Lang Syne
"Auld Lang Syne" is a poem in Scots that Robert Burns wrote in 1788 on the basis of an older Scottish folk song. Burns sent it to the Scots Musical Museum that year, describing it as an old song that had never been printed or written down until he took it down from an old man.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Auld Lang Syne. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/auld-lang-syne
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- “Auld Lang Syne.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/auld-lang-syne. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute. “Auld Lang Syne.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/auld-lang-syne.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Auld Lang Syne’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/auld-lang-syne (Accessed: ).
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