Writer's Block: Poetry Break

[Error: unknown template qotd]To a Mouse by Robert Burns

My 7th grade English teacher made us memorize this poem and recite it individually in front of the class.  I hated the poem and thought it was stupid.

I found the poem again in college and fell in love with it.  Actually one of the lines has become one of my favorite catch phrases:

(in revised language).  The best laid plans of mice and men, how oft they go awry