icker in a thrave" describes the title figure's tendency to thieve.
This poem pairs bleak December's winds with foggage green because they are snell and keen. The author is "truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union," and "daimen [?] icker in a thrave" describes the title figure's tendency to thieve. The title figure also saw fields "lay bare" and "wasted." This poem ends "on prospects drear! An forward, tho I canna see, I guess an fear!" This poem notes that "the best laid schemes," of a certain group "gang aft agley," and declares "in proving foresight you may be vain," "thou art no thy lane," to the title creature. Beginning "Wee sleekit, cowrous, tim'rous beastie," for ten points, name this poem by Robert Burns from which John Steinbeck used to name one of his novellas.
This poem pairs bleak December's winds with foggage green because they are snell and keen.
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