Friday, 22 May 2009

To A Louse - On seeing one on a lady's bonnet at church



O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
An' ev'n devotion!


http://www.worldburnsclub.com/poems/translations/552.htm
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