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 THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.

I've seen the smiling Of Fortune beguiling, I’ve felt all its favours, and found its decay Sweet was its blessing, Kind its caressing, But now ’tis fled,—fled far away.

I’ve seen the forest Adorned the foremost, With flowers of the fairest, most pleasant and gay; See bonny was their blooming, Their scent the air perfuming; But now they are wither’d and weeded away.

I’ve seen the morning, With gold the hills adorning, And loud tempest storming before the mid-day. I’ve seen Tweed’s silver streams Shining in the sunny beams, Grow drumly and dark as they row’d on their way.