Safely, the search giant (or is it now the media monster?) opted for the Red rose approach and Google will also give you all the Burns search information, not to mention the intriguing grouping of the poet's pictures show above.

But just think, Google could have opted for a bit of fun with the latest news of the 1789 letter from Burns to Professor James Gregory of Edinburgh University, which has emerged in Floors Castle, Kelso.

In it Burns encloses a version of  his poem "On seeing a wounded hare" and invites the expert's criticism in using his pencil to 'mark the faulty line.' Can't see any in the Kate Brooks study! 

Inhuman man! curse on thy barb'rous art,

And blasted be thy murder-aiming eye; 

May never pity soothe thee with a sigh, 

Nor never pleasure glad thy cruel heart! 



Go live, poor wanderer of the wood and field,

The bitter little that of life remains! 

No more the thickening brakes and verdant plains 

To thee shall home, or food, or pastime yield.

Seek, mangled wretch, some place of wonted rest, 

No more of rest, but now thy dying bed!

The sheltering rushes whistling o'er thy head,

The cold earth with thy bloody bosom prest.



Oft as by winding Nith I musing, wait 

The sober eve, or hail the cheerful dawn,

I'll miss thee sporting o'er the dewy lawn,

And curse the ruffian's aim, and mourn thy hapless fate.