To a Mouse

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"To A Mouse" is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1785, and was included in the Kilmarnock Volume. As the legend goes, Burns wrote the poem after, as the poem suggests, turning up the winter nest of a mouse on his farm.

John Steinbeck took the title of his 1937 novel Of Mice and Men from a line contained in the second last stanza: 'The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley' (often paraphrased as 'The best-laid plans of mice and men / Often go awry').

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• "To A Louse"
• Text of the poem can be found at http://www.bartleby.com/6/76.html