 | 1866 - 654 páginas
...of preparation for immediate active service not being reckoned. Unfortunately, as Burns sings, Pair mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain — The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft agley ! Mat barracks of the cheap kind deemed sufficient shelter for the poor soldiers... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 páginas
...hald,7 To thole8 the winter's sleety dribble, An cranreuch cauld !9 But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane10 In proving foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley,11 An' leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy. Still thou art blest, compared... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1866 - 308 páginas
...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 may be \\iin: The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley,t And leave us nought but grief and pain... | |
 | Roses - 1867 - 172 páginas
...for a' thy trouble, But house or hauld, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, And 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 blest,... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 páginas
...know ; 'Tis man alone that joy descries With forward and reverted eyes. GRAY. Ode on Vicistitude. Bur, 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 leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy. Still thou art blest,... | |
 | REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1867 - 728 páginas
...trouble, But house or bald, To thole** the winter's sleety dribble, An' cronreuchtt cauld But, mousic, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain ; The lest-laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley,îî An' lea's us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 páginas
...hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch caukl ! But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, Jn proving foresight may be vain : , The best laid schemes...a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy. i Still thou art blest, compar'd wi' me I The present only Unicheth thee : But, Och !... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Taylor - 1868 - 292 páginas
...were poets, and all poets were Burns-es, and all Bums-es had sung, " But, mousie, thou art not alane, In proving foresight may be vain ; The best laid schemes o mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us naught but grief and pain For promised joy," it wouldn't mend the matter ; it wouldn't turn back the... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 páginas
...trouble, But house or hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch cauld ! POET8 AND POETRY. 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 promis'd joy. Still thou art blest,... | |
 | Woodland - 1868 - 186 páginas
...thy trouble, But * house or hauM t To thole | the winter's sleety dribble, And 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,l And lea'e us nought but grief and pain For promised... | |
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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy. Still thou art blest compared wi' me ! The present only toucheth thee : But, och ! I backward cast my e'e On prospects drear, An' forward,... 
