JanetReading this poem at a funeral today … feeling it personally too.
Still thou are blest, compared wi’ me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But Och! I backward cast my e’e,
On prospects drear!
An’ forward, tho’ I cannot see,
I guess an’ fear!
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Roseanna Cunningham 🏴🖖All together now, aaaaaawwwww!
We’re left to guess why it was named Rabbie though I’ve a fair idea…..
#RobertBurns #ToAMouse
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gx6183072o
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Leo'Jet Ski Fuel'nardoMichael Gaydos. Kinda sad Leatherhead can't use the Scottish version because oh my god can you imagine a giant alligator man just bellowing "GANG AFT A-GLEY!" in the sewers?
ChristoIn honour of Robert Burns
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/mouse/
#Poetry #RobertBurns #ToAMouse
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/mouse/
#Poetry #RobertBurns #ToAMouse
Backpacking MNFun little moment on #Mastodon ... I had a friendly, humorous interaction with someone who posted a funny comment using part of a Robert Burns line of poetry: "The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men / Gang aft agley".
I sincerely enjoy it here. (Thank you, Peter Butler.)
パープルモンタートHere's the first two verses:
Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,
Wi' murd'ring pattle!
I'm truly sorry man's dominion,
Has broken nature's social union,
An' justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An' fellow-mortal!
#robertburns #toamouse
Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,
Wi' murd'ring pattle!
I'm truly sorry man's dominion,
Has broken nature's social union,
An' justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An' fellow-mortal!
#robertburns #toamouse
To a Mouse is a fun one especially due to it switching back and forth between Scots and English every verse.
#toamouse
#toamouse
To a Mouse being famous worldwide largely through the book Of Mice and Men, which comes from the poem's penultimate verse:
But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o mice an men
Gang aft agley,
An lea'e us nought but grief an pain,
For promis'd joy!
#robertburns #toamouse
But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o mice an men
Gang aft agley,
An lea'e us nought but grief an pain,
For promis'd joy!
#robertburns #toamouse