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But pluck'd and strain'd through ruder hands, Her sweets no longer with her dwells: But scent and beauty both are gone, And leaves fall from her, one by one. Such fate ere long will thee betide When thou hast handled been awhile, With sere flowers to...

Reliques of Robert Burns: Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and ... - Page 185
by Robert Burns - 1809 - 294 pages
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 50

William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - Theology - 1878 - 548 pages

...thou hast handled been awhile. Like fair flowers to be thrown aside, And thou shalt sigh when I shall smile, To see thy love to every one Hath brought thee to be loved by none." Burns Improving Aytoun. 351 " I do confess thou art sae fair, I wad been ower the Ings...

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