- To the birks of Aberfeldy! ... While o'er their heads the hazels hing, The little birdies blythely sing, Or lightly flit on wanton wing, In the birks of Aberfeldy.
- Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlets plays; Come let us spend the lightsome days, In the birks of Aberfeldy.
- The Birks’ were made famous by Scotland’s national bard (poet) Robbie Burns after he visited on his Highland Tour in 1787 and wrote ‘The Birks of Aberfeldy’.
- Prior to Burns’s visit, the whole gorge was known as the Den of Moness but was renamed when his poem The Birks of Aberfeldy made it famous.
- He wrote the Birks of Aberfeldy in 1787 to an existing melody. He was inspired to write it visiting the birks (birches) at Aberfeldy and the waterfalls at Mooness.
- The page contains the full text of The Birks Of Aberfeldy. The poem is written by Robert Burns.
- Made famous by Robert Burns, the Birks of Aberfeldy is a place of inspiration, full of soaring trees and tumbling waterfalls.
- The hoary cliffs are crown'd wi' flowers, White o'er the linns the burnie pours, And rising, weets wi' misty showers The birks of Aberfeldy.
- The Birks, from the Scots for birch trees, but made famous by Robert Burns' poem 'The Birks of Aberfeldy' in 1787 is a stunning circular walk.
- The Birks of Aberfeldy (‘birks’ from the Scots for birch trees or trees) is a 1.5 mile circular walk along the Moness Glen.