So I've always really like the last verse of To A Louse by Robert Burns. Burns night on the 25th by the way. But I actually don't understand what he means by the very last line. Do any of you have a clue? It makes sense to say that if we could in fact see ourselves clearly, that we wouldn't care about our superficial appearances, airs and graces.... but why should we then even let devotion go? Thank you for any illumination! Hope you're all fluent in Scots and have read a great deal of Burns x
O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion:
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
An' ev'n devotion!
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r_mutt:
You are too kind. Finding richness is one thing, putting it in a line is something completely different and there I can only be left in awe of the poets...
annalee:
@r_mutt haha indeed! The universe in a grain of sand :-)