Burns Night
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A Mothers Lament for her Dying Son
Fate gave the word, the arrow sped,
And pierc'd my darling's heart;
And with him all the joys are fled
Life can to me impart.
By cruel hands the sapling drops,
In dust dishonour'd laid:
So fell the pride of all my hopes,
My age's future shade.
The mother-linnet in the brake
Bewails her ravish'd young;
So I, for my lost darling's sake,
Lament the live day long.
Death, oft I've fear'd thy fatal blow,
Now, fond, I bare my breast,
Oh, do thou kindly lay me low
With him I love, at rest!
If he can learn this one I will be very impressed. x There wont be a dry eye in the house!
ReplyDeleteHe did very well and managed to learn it all. After some banning of TV, X-Box and Wii if he didn't!!!!!!
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