Robert Burns’s poem “To a Mouse” in A Primer of Burns, 1907.

This book contains several of Robert Burns’ poems. Burns was an eighteenth-century Scottish poet whose poem “To a Mouse” was the inspiration for the title Of Mice and Men.

Citation Information
Burns, Robert, excerpt from “A primer of Burns,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/bf8325f211f6b1d65a8fd6faa2093696.
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