The National Song Book - Online Music Book

250 Folk-songs, Carols, And Rounds with sheet music and lyrics

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	THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.
	2. I've seen the forest adorned the foremost With flowers of the fairest, baith pleasant and gay ; Sae bonny was their blooming! their seent the air perfuming ! But now they are wither'd and a' wede away. 3-I've seen the morning with gold the hills adorningj And the loud tempest roaring before parting day; I've seen Tweed's silver streams, glittering in the sunny beams, Grow drumly and dark as they roll'd on their way.
	4- (), fickle Fortune, why this cruel sporting ? O why thus perplex us, poor sons of a day ? 1 hy frown cannot fear me, thy smile cannot cheer me; Since the Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.
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