Apology



I'm truly sorry Man's dominion
Has broken Nature's social union,
An' justifies that ill opinion
    Which makes thee startle,
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
    An' fellow-mortal!

-Robert Burns (1759-1796),
To a Mouse on Turning Her up
in Her Nest with the Plough
,
November, 1785







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