Rachel Bevan Baker (@rachelbevanbaker): "To celebrate Burns Night here in Scotland, here is a sleekit wee animation I made last year inspired by his poem ‘To A Mouse’. To a Mouse by Robert Burns, on turning her up in her nest with the plough, Nov1785 (first verse) Wee, sleekit, cowrin’, tim’rous beastie, …"

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To celebrate Burns Night here in Scotland, here is a sleekit wee animation I made last year inspired by his poem ‘To A Mouse’.

To a Mouse

by Robert Burns, on turning her up in her nest with the plough, Nov1785 (first verse)

Wee, sleekit, cowrin’, tim’rous beastie,

O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!

Thou need na start awa sae hasty,

Wi’ bickerin brattle!

I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee

Wi’ murd’ring pattle!

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Robert Burns | Poetry Foundation

Robert Burns was born in 1759, in Alloway, Scotland, to William and Agnes Brown Burnes. Like his father, Burns was a tenant farmer. However, toward the end of his life he became an excise collector in Dumfries, where he died in 1796; throughout his life he was also a practicing poet. His poetry…

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