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Thread #149258   Message #3471971
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter
27-Jan-13 - 07:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie
Subject: RE: BS: Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie
Burns's mouse lived way out in the middle of a field. That made it easier to sympathize.

BTW, "Tae a Mouse" is one of the greatest poems in the more-or-less English language.

The switch in perspective at the end is killer.