| Robert Burns - 1840 - 368 Seiten
...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, compar'd wi' me I The present only toucheth thee : But, och... | |
| Oliver Oldham - 1854 - 406 Seiten
...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. 8. Still art thou blest, compared wi' me! The present only toucheth thee : * An ear... | |
| Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 Seiten
...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, compared wi' me ! The present only toucheth thee : But, och... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 Seiten
...hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble And cranreuch cauld ? 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, compared wi' me! The present only toucheth thee : But, och!... | |
| Robert Burns - 1864 - 380 Seiten
...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, compared wi' me ! The present only toucheth thee : But, och... | |
| Ellen L. Brown - 1865 - 176 Seiten
...AND WH&T HE GOT BY IT, " But, Monsie,' . . Foresight may be vain The bast laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain For promised joy." BURNS. |0 rice pudding, Master Gregory! Ton. hav'n't been at the jam again this... | |
| Roses - 1867 - 172 Seiten
...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, compared wi' me ! The present only toucheth thee : But, oh... | |
| Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 Seiten
...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, compared wi' me ! The present only toucheth thee : But, och... | |
| 1907 - 342 Seiten
...following verses that the lesson Burns wished to teach is contained : " The best laid schemes of mice and men Gang aft agley And lea'e us nought but grief and pain For promised joy." The poet's sympathy and distress may also be seen in his poem written on seeing... | |
| Adam White - 1870 - 378 Seiten
...mousie, thou art no thy lane ; Improving 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, compared wi' me 1 The present only toucheth thee ; But, och... | |
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