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For the flowers of the forest are a' wade away.

Alison Cockburn

I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling,
I've felt all its favours and found its decay;
Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing,
But now it is fled, fled far, far away.

Alison Cockburn

Alison Cockburn

Alison Cockburn

Born: October 8, 1712

Died: November 22, 1794 (aged 82)

Bio: Alison Cockburn also Alison Rutherford, or Alicia Cockburn was a Scottish poet, wit and socialite who collected a circle of eminent friends in 18th century enlightenment Edinburgh including Walter Scott, Robert Burns and David Hume.

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