India, Jan. 30 -- Good luck to you and your honest, plump face,

Great chieftain of the sausage race!

Above them all you take your place,

Stomach, tripe, or intestines:

Well are you worthy of a grace

As long as my arm.

Robert Burns most probably wrote the famous poem "Address to a Haggis" in 1786 for a dinner at the house of his merchant friend Andrew Bruce. Burns, widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, whose well-known works included "Auld Lang Syne", "Scots Wha Hae", "A Man's a Man for A' That", and "To a Mouse" is considered a pioneer of the Romantic Movement, and after his death became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish d...