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DITTY by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

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First Line: THE COCK SHALL CROW
Last Line: WHILE ALL THE LITTLE BROWN BIRDS SING UPON THE SPRAY.
The cock shall crow
In the morning grey,
The bugles blow
At the break of day:
The cock shall sing and the merry bugles ring,
And all the little brown birds sing upon the spray.
The thorn shall blow
In the month of May,
And my love shall go
In her holiday array:
But I shall lie in the kirkyard nigh
While all the little brown birds sing upon the spray.



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