Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST, by ALISON RUTHERFORD


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First Line: I've seen the smiling of fortune beguiling
Last Line: For the flowers of the forest are a' wede away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cockburn, Patrick, Mrs.; Cockburn, Alison; Cockburn, Alicia
Subject(s): Flowers; Fortune


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 fled -- it is fled far away.

I've seen the Forest
Adorned the foremost
With flowers of the fairest most pleasant and gay;
Sae bonnie was their blooming!
Their scent the air perfuming!
But now they are wither'd and weded 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 he rowed on his way.

Oh, fickle Fortune,
Why this cruel sporting?
Oh, why still perplex us, poor sons of a day?
Nae mair your smiles can cheer me,
Nae mair your frowns can fear me;
For the Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.





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