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

by Robert Burns, 1788

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.

Published in Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
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