 | Education - 1925 - 702 pages
...then and there wrote, "To a Mouse." The last two stanzas are : But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' leave us nought but grief an' pain For promised joy. Still, thou art blest, compared wi' me ; The present... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...cald. hoar-frost But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain : Ihe best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain. For promised joy. Amidst the gloom of personal misery brooding over the wintry desolation without, how... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1880 - 404 pages
...back to himself. But, Mousio, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain : The Lest l.iid schemes o" mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promised joy. Still thou art blest, compared wi' me, The present only toucheth thee.... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts, for ever. It. The best-laid schemes of mice and men, Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain For promised joy. To a Mouse. Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O ! Green... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - American poetry - 1881 - 348 pages
...hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble An' cranreuch cauld ! But mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes...a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy. Still thou art blest, compared wi' me ! The present only toucheth thee : But, och ! I... | |
 | George Milner - Gardening - 1881 - 370 pages
...heap o' leaves an' stibble, Has cost thee mony a weary nibble ! But, mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes o! mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea' us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy. Still thou art blest, compar'd wi' me ! The present... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 510 pages
...thole 8 the winter's sleety dribble And cranreuch* cauld! But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, 10 In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, 11 An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain, Eor promised joy. Still thou art blest, compared wi' me!... | |
 | Winter pictures - 1882 - 200 pages
...hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch cauld ! But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes...a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain. For promised joy. Still thou art blest, compared wi' me ! The present only toucheth thee : But, och ! I... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...hasty, Wi' bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, Wi' murd'ring pattle! (1. 1-6) 63 And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we o an' pain. For promis'd joy! (1. 39-42) EnRP; FaFP; FF; FM; GoTS; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; HelP; InPS; NAEL-2;... | |
 | Jeffery S. Underwood - Air power - 1991 - 262 pages
...LeMay's B-29s would bring to life Japan's greatest fear: the burning of their cities. The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! ROBERT BURNS" APPENDIX I Commentary on Giulio Douhet and the Army Air Corps... | |
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But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an 
