Happy Birthday Burns

A snippet from one of Burns' most well known poems 'Tam O'Shanter':

But pleasures are like poppies spread, 

You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; 

Or like the snow falls in the river, 

A moment white-then melts for ever; 

Or like the Borealis race, 

That flit ere you can point their place; 

Or like the Rainbow's lovely form 

Evanishing amid the storm. -