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Ive seen the morning' with gold the hills adorning,
And loud tempest storming before the mid day;
Ive sec-n Tweed s silver streams shining in- the sunny beams,
G-row drumly and dark as he row'd on his way.
O fickle f .rtune 1 why this cruel sporting! »
O why still perplex us, poor sons of a day. -
No more yotrr smiles ran cheer me, no more your frowns can fi ,.r
For the flowers of the T~nrc_st are withered away.

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