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Robert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

205 . Song—Go on, Sweet Bird, and Soothe my Care

FOR thee is laughing Nature gay,

For thee she pours the vernal day;

For me in vain is Nature drest,

While Joy’s a stranger to my breast.