a traditional song called "Low Down in the Broom". The melody was widely anthologized, and Burns was familiar with it. In fact, he wrote to George Thomson in 1793, "Low down in the broom—In my opinion, deserves more properly a place among your lively and humorous Songs." Burns' lyric was not paired with "Low Down in the Broom" until Robert Archibald Smith published the third volume of his Scotish Minstrel in 1821. Prior to this pairing, "Red, Red Rose" was not widely published as sheet music. "Low Down in the Broom" has several similarities to "Major Graham", which has given rise to the mistaken attribution to Gow as the composer of the song. Both begin with the same melodic contour, but Gow's tune is much more syncopated and harder to sing. "Major Graham" gives stress to the wrong syllables in Burns' text so much that the entire focus of the song shifts to the narrator away from his love. Smith's version of "Red, Red Rose" has been widely performed by a range of artists in the 20th and 21st centuries including Kenneth McKellar, the Fureys, Eddi Reader, Eva Cassidy, Izzy, Ronnie Browne, and Ariella Uliano. Other Settings Robert Schumann set Burns' poem in German as "Dem roten Röslein gleicht mein Lieb" for piano and voice. It is the second song in his Fünf Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 27. Burns was a frequent source for Schumann's vocal compositions. Modern composers have also used Burns' text for their works, including David Dickau, Matthew Brown, James Mulholland, and René Clausen. Jimmy Van Heusen composed a version of "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose". Pat Boone sings Van Heusen's work in the 1959 film adaptation of A Journey to the Center of the Earth. Carly Simon sings a setting of "A Red, Red Rose" composed by her sister Lucy Simon on the 1969 album The Simon Sisters Sing The Lobster Quadrille And Other Songs For Children. Camera Obscura wrote their own version of the song and included it as a B-side for their 2005 single "I Love My Jean". Burns' lyrics are included in the song "Final Breath" by the post rock band Pelican on their album What We All Come to Need. Legacy The title of the 1935 short story "Till A'the Seas" by H. P. Lovecraft and R. H. Barlow comes from the first line of the third stanza of