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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
  
  

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FOR THEE IS LAUGHING NATURE
  
  
  
  
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FOR THEE IS LAUGHING NATURE

For thee is laughing Nature gay,
For thee she pours the vernal day:
For me in vain is Nature drest,
While Joy's a stranger to my breast.