One of my favourite Rabbie Burns ‘poyems’. I hear it as Capturing a more humble and sensitive relationship that we need universally between ‘man’ and nature 'Ode To a Mouse' On Turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785. ‘Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,
Wi’ murdering pattle! I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion
Has broken Nature’s social union,
An’ justifies tha…