To A Louse: On Seeing One On A Lady’s Bonnet, At Church

….(final stanza)… Oh wad some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion: What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us, An ev’n devotion! -Rabbie Burns, 1786