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with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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83<br />

Into that hollow cave^<br />

There will I sigh <strong>and</strong> rave,<br />

Because thou dost behave<br />

So faithlessly.<br />

Wild fruit shall be my meat,<br />

Cold earth shall be my seat<br />

I'll have the starry sky<br />

My head to canopy,<br />

Until my soul on hy<br />

I'll have no funeral fire,<br />

I'll drink the spring.<br />

For covering<br />

Shall spread its wing,<br />

Nor tears for me :<br />

No grave do I desire.<br />

Nor obsequies<br />

Tlie courteous Red-breast he<br />

With leaves will cover me,<br />

And sing my elegy<br />

And when a ghost I am,<br />

O thou deceitful dame,<br />

With doleful voice.<br />

I'll visit thee,<br />

Whose cruelt}<br />

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