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title: "Go on, Sweet Bird, and Sooth My Care"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1788"
location: "Mossgiel"
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/go-on-sweet-bird-and-sooth-my-care/"
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# Go on, Sweet Bird, and Sooth My Care

## Poem
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.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
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