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    Luckless Fortune

    by Robert Burns
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    [Those lines, as Burns informs us, were written to a tune of his own
    composing, consisting of three parts, and the words were the echo of
    the air.]

    O raging fortune's withering blast
    Has laid my leaf full low, O!
    O raging fortune's withering blast
    Has laid my leaf full low, O!
    My stem was fair, my bud was green,
    My blossom sweet did blow, O;
    The dew fell fresh, the sun rose mild,
    And made my branches grow, O.
    But luckless fortune's northern storms
    Laid a' my blossoms low, O;
    But luckless fortune's northern storms
    Laid a' my blossoms low, O.
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