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The poetical works of Sir Alexander Boswell

... Now first collected and edited, with memoir, by Robert Howie Smith
Boswell, Alexander (1775-1822)

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[PART I.] SONGS CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT.
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[PART II.]

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TO A GERMAN AIR—SONG.

Ah, life is but a dream!
Still from futurity we borrow
The pleasing hope of new delight;
The hours pass on, and coming night
Foretells that joy shall deck to-morrow:
It comes—we find, alas! in sorrow,
That life is but a dream.
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