And now: time to annoy my children with the annual reading of To a Mouse for Burns Night
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/mouse/
To a Mouse
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!
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