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  1. It’s me. The eponymous Moose
    The To a Mouse that, were I in your hoose,
    A bit o dust ablow the bed, thon dodd o’ oose
    That, quick, turns tail,
    Is – eek! – a living creature on the loose,
    Wad gar you wail…

    —Liz Lochhead, “From a Mouse” – a poetic response to Robert Burns, published in FUGITIVE COLOURS (Birlinn 2016)

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    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #LizLochhead #RobertBurns #Scots #Scotlsanguage

  2. I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion
    Has broken Nature’s social union,
    An’ justifies that ill opinion,‍‍
    ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍Which makes thee startle,
    At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,‍‍
    ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍ ‍‍‍‍‍‍ ‍An’ fellow-mortal!

    —Robert Burns, “To a Mouse, On turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785”

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertBurns #Scots #Scotlsanguage #environmentalism #naturewriting #18thCentury #Romanticism #November #winter