Today’s Poem: To a Mouse

The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men

Hieronymus Bosch, detail from the central panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1500 (Wikimedia Commons)

To a Mouse

by Robert Burns

On Turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785.

Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie,	◦ little, sleek, cowering, timorous 
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
 	Wi’ bicker…