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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 it is fledfled far away.

I've seen the foreſt adorned the foremoſt,

With flowers of the faireſt, moſt pleasant

and gay;

Sae bonny was their blooming, their scent

the air perfuming,

But now they are withered, 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 roll'd on

their way.