Declaring we were overrun with cats,
That licked her cream-dish and her butter-pats,
But childhood's pleadings won me, and I said—
'O Cook, we'll keep the innocents alive;
They're five, consider, and you've fingers five.'
FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT.
A New Version, respectfully recommended to sundry whom it concerns.
(BURNS)
More luck to honest poverty,
It claims respect, and a' that;