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Among famous poems featured in every high school literature class, one stands out: “To a Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church,” by Scottish poet Robert Burns. 

Burns delights telling of sitting in church behind a woman who’s sporting a fancy new hat, not realizing there’s a louse crawling all over it. How proud she is of that hat, Burns smirks, but how embarrassed she’d be — and how embarrassed any of us would be — if only we knew how silly we look to others. 

As Burns sums it up...