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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border - National Library of Scotland

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134<br />

.MINSTRELSY OF<br />

THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.<br />

PAHT SECOND.<br />

I've seen <strong>the</strong> smiling <strong>of</strong> Fortune beguiling,<br />

I've tasted her favours, and felt her decay ;<br />

Sweet is her blessing, and kind her caressing,<br />

But soon it is fled— it is fled far away.<br />

I\'e seen <strong>the</strong> forest adorn'd <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> foremost.<br />

With flowers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fairest, both pleasant and gay :<br />

Full sweet was <strong>the</strong>ir blooming, <strong>the</strong>ir scent <strong>the</strong> air perfuniing,<br />

But now are <strong>the</strong>y wi<strong>the</strong>red, and a"" wede awae.<br />

I've seen <strong>the</strong> morning with gold <strong>the</strong> hills adorning,<br />

And <strong>the</strong> red storm roaring, before <strong>the</strong> parting day ;<br />

IVe seen Tweed's silver streams, glittering in <strong>the</strong> sunny beams.<br />

Turn drumly* and dark, as <strong>the</strong>y rolPd on <strong>the</strong>ir way.<br />

» Drumly—Discoloured.

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