The Day Returns

by Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Versions of The Day Returns include:

• "The Day Returns", in The Soldier's Departure (n.d.), a chapbook printed in Stirling
• "The Day returns", in Seven Select Songs (n.d.), a chapbook printed in Edinburgh
• "The Day Returns", in Tak your auld cloak about ye (n.d.), a chapbook printed in Glasgow
• "The day returns", in I had a horse (1820), a chapbook printed in Edinburgh
• "The Day Returns", in Welcome Charlie o'er the main (1826), a chapbook printed in Stirling
• "The Day Returns", in The Book of Scottish Song (1843), edited by Alexander Whitelaw
• "The Blissful Day", in The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (1887), edited by Alexander Smith