 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 368 pages
...dribble, And cranreuch cauld ! But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes o' mice and men, Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promis'd joy. Still thou art blest, compar'd wi' me I The present... | |
 | Oliver Oldham - 1854 - 406 pages
...dribble, And cranreuch|| cauld! 7. But, mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes o' mice and men, Gang aft a-gley,** And lea'e us nought but grief and pain For promised joy. 8. Still art thou blest, compared wi' me! The... | |
 | 1853 - 692 pages
...Invigorated by the prospect of an hour's quiet, I walked forward with elastic step to the ancient hostelry ; but "the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley," and, to my excessive annoyance, the first thing on entering the inn I received was a communication requiring... | |
 | James Ballantine - 1859 - 630 pages
...with bright hopes of happiness before him, he welcomed his Jean to his home on the Banks of the Nith. But " The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, An' leave us nonght but grief and pain, For promised joy." You all know his weaknesses, his errors,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...out for a' thy trouble But house or hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble And cranreuch cauld ? The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy. Still thou art blest, compared wi' me! The present... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. To a Louse. 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. Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...eyes. GRAY. Ode on Vicistitude. Bur, Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy. Still thou art blest, compared wi' me ! The present... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - 1907 - 412 pages
...assault of the hill, had pressed forward rather impatiently towards the siderial region ; but, alas — The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft agley ; and after no little delay, and considerable anxiety, it was announced that some mistake must have occurred,... | |
 | Roses - 1867 - 172 pages
...dribble, And cranreuch cauld ! But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain For promised joy. Still thou art blest, compared wi' me ! The present... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 pages
...cranreuch cauld ! POET8 AND POETRY. But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain ; The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promis'd joy. Still thou art blest, compared wi' me ! The present... | |
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The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy. 
