Burns "To a Mountain Daisy" can be linked to the ideas we considered in Williams essay, raising questions about man's relationship with nature. The narrator says "For I maun crush amang the stoure / Thy slender stem: / To spare thee now is past my pow’r". It is man who destroys nature, who has the power to eliminate something small but beautiful, yet he does not have the power to save nature and reverse the damage he has done.
The poem continues that Burns (or at least, the narrator) is "no thy neibor sweet", or, in other words, man does not belong in nature. The lark does, the lark and the flower are counted together, both part of nature and separate from man. Even in the storm, that in The Seasons was lethal to men, this tiny flower can "cheerfully" grow, because again both are natural, it is just man who goes against nature.
In the final stanza, Burns' claim that "such is the fate" suggests that there is an inevitability to this destruction of the simple but beautiful elements of nature until all that is left is the "dust" in which it is "laid low". Unlike Williams and Felstiner, it does not provide much hope that, with a slight change in thinking (possibly brought about my poetry) man can change this relationship with nature and find a way to preserve it instead of destroying it.