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title: "Raging Fortune"
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/raging-fortune/"
---

# Raging Fortune

## Poem
O raging Fortune’s withering blast  
Has laid my leaf full low, O!  
O raging Fortune’s withering blast  
Has laid my leaf full low, O!

My stem was fair, my bud was green,  
My blossom sweet did blow, O!  
The dew fell fresh, the sun rose mild,  
And made my branches grow, O!

But luckless Fortune’s northern storms  
Laid a’ my blossoms low, O!  
But luckless Fortune’s northern storms  
Laid a’ my blossoms low, O!

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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/raging-fortune/