| 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 |
| Robert Burns |
The Poems and Songs
Harvard Classics, Vol. 6
The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
Robert Burns
The most lauded poet of Scotland, Burns had a love of his nation’s songs, like Auld Lang Syne, which has been infectious ever since the world over. The musical highland dialect in the 557 works is translated in a glossary of over 1,900 words and phrases.
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NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001