Postcard illustrating "Auld Lang Syne"

Postcard of a cartoon illustrating Burns' poem, "Auld Lang Syne".  A colour lithograph of a scene from Robert Burns' most famous song. It illustrates the verse beginning, "An' there's a hand, my trusty fiere".  The cartoon depicts two elderly gentlemen shaking hands in front of a hearth.    "Auld Lang Syne" is frequently mis-quoted, as it is here. The postcard quotes the stanza as "An' here's a hand, my trusty freen".   Robert Burns created "Auld Lang Syne", perhaps the best known song in the English language, although it is actually written in Scots, by reworking a fragment of a traditional song which he had collected.  He first wrote down a version of it in 1788 whilst living at Ellisland Farm, 5 miles north of Dumfries.