 | James Waddel Alexander - 1872 - 296 pagina’s
...boys, and even sang part of Burns's lines to the Mouse, whose nest was turned up by his plough : — " But, mousie, thou art no thy lane,* In proving foresight...vain: The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley,t And leave us nought but giief and pain For promised joy." It was finally, however, completed,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1872 - 382 pagina’s
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 | Robert Burns - 1872 - 778 pagina’s
...hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, And cranreuch cauld I 7 But, Mousie, thou art no thy laue, In proving foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And lca:e us naught but grief and pain, For promised joy. 8 Still thou art... | |
 | H. L. D. Potter - 1873 - 444 pagina’s
...cranreuch cauld ! But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain : The best-laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain For promised joy. Still thou art bless'd compared wi' me ; The present only toucheth thee ; But, och ! I backward cast... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pagina’s
...In the unprosperous farm Burns was thinking of emigration from his native land when he wrote — ** But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain ; The best laid schemes of mice and men Gang oft agley. And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy. " Still thou... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - 1867 - 832 pagina’s
...intercept about a dozen of them. Thus far I thought myself very lucky ; but, as the poet Burns says, ' The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley. And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy,' — so it fell out with me. The seals of course... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1874 - 396 pagina’s
...mortal ! But here, again, he cannot help, like Gray, moralizing, nor in the end getting back to himself. 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'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promised joy. Still thou art blest,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pagina’s
...see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. To a Louse. The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley ; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy. To a Mouse. Stern Ruin's plougbshare drives elate... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1875 - 660 pagina’s
...trouble, But' l house or hald, 1* To thole 13 thj winter's sleety dribble, 14 An' cranreuch cauld ! IS 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, 10 An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promised joy. Still thou art... | |
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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy! Still thou art blest, compar'd wi' me! The present only toucheth thee: But, och! I backward cast my e'e, On prospects drear! An' forward, tho'... 
