Answer:
Explanation:
It is speaking of the mouse.
sleekit == cunning
cow'rin == shivering
tim'rous beastie == timid beast.
Robert Burns (the poet) was ploughing his field when he overturned the nest of a field mouse who was prepairing for winter. The poem was a dedication to her.
It was not the poet. It was a shivering mouse.
Mortal Man is the way Ezekiel (in the Bible) speaks of how God speaks to him when he commands him to go to the Israelites and speak to them. it just means we live and we die.
A rake is man who lies with and to women.
None of the other three are possible.
