Miss Crow kept things snapping along. She asked Martha how many poems she could recite, and when Martha said none, Miss Crow raised her hands in mock horror.
"We'll have to remedy that!" she said, and she set Martha a stanza of "Tam o' Shanter" to memorize from a book she had brought in her trunk.--Melissa Wiley, Down to the Bonny Glen (The Martha Years)
(Warning about that video--there is some really scary stuff in there! Not for young children. Ponytails says "awkward.")
Here's a virtual experiment: Burns reading his own "To a Mouse."
Or maybe you prefer claymation?
And here's one for the glacial weather we've been having: "Winter: A Dirge." (It starts out with the fiddle, and the words begin a few lines in.)
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