"The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy."
— Disappointment

January 1, 1970

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Robert Burns, To a Mouse (1785), Stanza 7. See also Anna Letitia Barbauld, Rose's Petition; John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther; Alexander Pope, Imitation of Horace, Book II, Satire 6.