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title: "Fickle Fortune: A Fragment"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1782"
location: "Lochlea"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/fickle-fortune-a-fragment/"
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# Fickle Fortune: A Fragment

## Poem
Though fickle Fortune has deceived me,  
She pormis’d fair and perform’d but ill;  
Of mistress, friends, and wealth bereav’d me,  
Yet I bear a heart shall support me still.

I’ll act with prudence as far ’s I’m able,  
But if success I must never find,  
Then come misfortune, I bid thee welcome,  
I’ll meet thee with an undaunted mind.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/fickle-fortune-a-fragment/