Tuesday, February 5, 2013

To a Mouse


This is actually a picture of a rat, not a mouse. No blog's perfect.

After finding a nest full of mice one winter, Scottish poet Robert Burns was inspired to write the following:
"To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough"

Make sure to check out the original Scots verse, which is more difficult to parse but much more exciting than the fully-English version.

1 comment:

  1. That's where the "mice and men" expression comes from! Cool! And I'm with you - I love the Scots.

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