Selections From the Poetry of Robert Burns, With Notes, Introduction, And Glossary;
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— The feeling expressed in this stanza is akin to that in The Cotter's Saturday Night. Nowhere are the domestic affections stronger than among the peasantry of Scotland. In the remaining stanzas. Burns has not only justly estimated his own power and range as a poet, but he has also vividly expressed the secret of genius — ' a spark of Nature's fire.' TO A MOUSE. 1785. (Page 21.) This poem was composed while Burns was following the plough on the farm at Mossgiel. A farm-hand who was working with... him chased the frightened mouse whose nest had been destroyed, and would have killed it with a pattle, or spade, which he held in his hand ; but he was restrained by Burns, who inquired what harm the poor mouse had done him. During the following night, Burns awoke the -servant who occupied the bed with him, recited the poem which he had just composed, and said, ' What think you of our mouse now ? ' Tender sympathy for what the world is pleased to call the ' lower animals ' is one of Burns' s noticeable characteristics.
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