{"id":1823,"date":"2018-01-25T22:25:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T14:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2021-12-01T10:25:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T02:25:28","slug":"burns-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/burns-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn&#8217;s Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cy8lehO7nqg?showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #7f0f0e;\">To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Wee, sleekit, cow&#8217;rin, tim&#8217;rous beastie,<br \/>\nO, what a panic&#8217;s in thy breastie!<br \/>\nThou need <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1178.html\">na<\/a> start <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/68.html\">awa<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1371.html\">sae<\/a> hasty,<br \/>\nWi&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/142.html\">bickering<\/a> brattle!<br \/>\nI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1771.html\">wad<\/a> be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1044.html\">laith<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1346.html\">rin<\/a> an&#8217; chase thee,<br \/>\nWi&#8217; murd&#8217;ring pattle!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m truly sorry man&#8217;s dominion,<br \/>\nHas broken nature&#8217;s social union,<br \/>\nAn&#8217; justifies that ill opinion,<br \/>\nWhich makes thee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1561.html\">startle<\/a><br \/>\nAt me, thy poor, earth-born companion,<br \/>\nAn&#8217; fellow-mortal!<\/p>\n<p>I doubt na, whiles, but thou may thieve;<br \/>\nWhat then? poor beastie, thou <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1132.html\">maun<\/a> live!<br \/>\nA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/489.html\">daimen icker<\/a> in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1680.html\">thrave<\/a><br \/>\n&#8216;S a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1482.html\">sma&#8217;<\/a> request;<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/767.html\">get<\/a> a blessin wi&#8217; the lave,<br \/>\nAn&#8217; never miss&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p>Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s silly wa&#8217;s the win&#8217;s are strewin!<br \/>\nAn&#8217; naething, now, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/149.html\">big<\/a> a new ane,<br \/>\nO&#8217; foggage green!<br \/>\nAn&#8217; bleak December&#8217;s winds ensuin,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/88.html\">Baith<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1497.html\">snell<\/a> an&#8217; keen!<\/p>\n<p>Thou <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1386.html\">saw<\/a> the fields laid bare an&#8217; waste,<br \/>\nAn&#8217; weary winter comin fast,<br \/>\nAn&#8217; cozie here, beneath the blast,<br \/>\nThou thought to dwell-<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1695.html\">Till<\/a> crash! the cruel coulter past<br \/>\nOut thro&#8217; thy cell.<\/p>\n<p>That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1823.html\">wee<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/163.html\">bit<\/a> heap o&#8217; leaves an&#8217; stibble,<br \/>\nHas cost thee mony a weary nibble!<br \/>\nNow thou&#8217;s turn&#8217;d out, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/4.html\">a&#8217;<\/a> thy trouble,<br \/>\nBut house <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1212.html\">or<\/a> hald,<br \/>\nTo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1673.html\">thole<\/a> the winter&#8217;s sleety dribble,<br \/>\nAn&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/447.html\">cranreuch<\/a> cauld!<\/p>\n<p>But, Mousie, thou art <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1203.html\">no<\/a> thy lane,<br \/>\nIn proving foresight may be vain;<br \/>\nThe best-laid schemes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1208.html\">o&#8217;<\/a> mice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/41.html\">an<\/a> &#8216;men<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/742.html\">Gang<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/18.html\">aft<\/a> agley,<br \/>\nAn&#8217;lea&#8217;e us nought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/288.html\">but<\/a> grief an&#8217; pain,<br \/>\nFor promis&#8217;d joy!<\/p>\n<p>Still thou art blest, compar&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/1859.html\">wi&#8217;<\/a> me<br \/>\nThe present only toucheth thee:<br \/>\nBut, Och! I backward cast my e&#8217;e.<br \/>\nOn prospects drear!<br \/>\nAn&#8217; forward, tho&#8217; I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/309.html\">canna<\/a> see,<br \/>\nI guess <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertburns.org\/works\/glossary\/40.html\">an&#8217;<\/a> fear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough Wee, sleekit, cow&#8217;rin, tim&#8217;rous beastie, O, what a panic&#8217;s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi&#8217; bickering brattle! 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