72 Ways of Meadow Mice [SECOND WEEK 



the keen, strenuous, short, but happy, life which is that 

 of all the wild meadow folk. 



That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble 

 Has cost thee mony a weary nibble! 

 Thou saw the fields laid bare and waste, 

 An' weary winter comin' fast, 

 An' cosey here, beneath the blast, 

 Thou thought to dwell. 



ROBERT BURNS. 



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