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The first stanza of the poem is read by Ian Anderson in the beginning of the 2007 remaster of "One Brown Mouse" by Jethro Tull. Anderson adds the line "But a mouse is a mouse, for all that" at the end of the stanza, which is a reference to another of Burns's songs, "Is There for Honest Poverty", commonly known as "A Man's a Man for A' That".
Just now I wanted to show the poem to someone, and she went to another site where there was no translation. She thought the word "wi" meant "wee"! Eric Kvaalen 10:28, 28 October 2015 (UTC) Having a translation is nice, but I think the translation in its current form (as of the day I posted this) changes far more words than necessary.
The title is taken from Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse": "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley" ("The best-laid plans of mice and men / Often go awry"). Although the book is taught in many schools, [ 3 ] Of Mice and Men has been a frequent target of censorship and book bans for vulgarity and for what some consider offensive ...
Behold, the history and fun facts behind everyone's favorite festive poem, along with all of the words to read aloud to your family this Christmas. Related: 50 Best 'Nightmare Before Christmas' Quotes
A judge in Brazil has ordered Adele’s song Million Years Ago to be removed globally from streaming services due to a plagiarism claim by Brazilian composer, Toninho Geraes. Geraes alleges that ...
There a mouse crouches on the cover of an ancient book and looks across to an eruption. [34] Edward Julius Detmold, on the other hand, reverses the scale in his Aesop's Fables (1909) by picturing a huge mouse crouched upon a mountain outcrop. [35] The fable was also annexed to the satirical work of political cartoonists.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI has been investigating a longtime Exxon Mobil consultant over the contractor's alleged role in a hack-and-leak operation that targeted hundreds of the oil company’s ...
Riddles are an internationally widespread feature of oral literatures and scholars have not doubted that they were traditional to Old English culture. [1] But the history of riddles as a literary genre in England seems to be rooted in an influential collection of late Antique Latin riddles, possibly from north Africa, attributed to a poet called Symphosius, whose work English scholars emulated ...