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LINES ON FORTUNE, A SKILFUL MECHANIST by WALTER SCOTT

Poet Analysis

First Line: FORTUNE, MY FOE, WHY DOST THOU FROWN ON ME?
Last Line: I'LL WALK, I'LL MOUNT -- I'LL BE A MAN AGAIN.
Subject(s): FATE; PAIN; DESTINY; SUFFERING; MISERY;

FORTUNE, my Foe, why dost thou frown on me?
And will my Fortune never better be?
Wilt thou, I say, for ever breed my pain?
And wilt thou ne'er return my joys again?

@3(No! let my ditty be henceforth -- )@1

Fortune, my Friend, how well thou favourest me!
A kinder Fortune man did never see!
Thou propp'st my thigh, thou ridd'st my knee of pain,
I'll walk, I'll mount -- I'll be a man again.



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