The Poetry of Robert Burns
Publish date: 2024-09-22
To A Mouse
Whilst he wasn't writing iconic poetry, Robert Burns was a farmer, a profession not widely concerned with the wellbeing of wild animals at the time. So, this ode to a tiny field mouse is quite out of character for a farmer in Burns' day.
"Wee, sleekit, cowran, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie..."
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