Song For Autumn

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Now whistlin' wind, aye and slaught'ring gun
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Bring autumn's pleasant weather
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Oh, the moorcock springs, aye, on whirring wings
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Amangst the blooming heather

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Now waving grain__, wide o'er the plain
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Delights the weary farmer
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But the moon shines bright when I rove at night
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To muse upon my charmer

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Now the partridge loves a fruitful fell
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The plover loves the mountains
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And the woodcock haunts the lonely dell
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The soaring hern the fountains

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Through lofty groves the cushat roves
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The path of man to shun it
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And the hazel bush o'erhangs the thrush
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The spreading thorn, the linnet

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Let every kind their fortune find
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The savage and the tender
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Some social join, oh, some leagues combine
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Some solitary wander

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Avaunt, away__, the cruel sway
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Tyrannic man's dominion
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The sportsman's joy, oh, a murdering cry
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Fluttering gory pinion

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But, Peggy dear the evening's clear
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Swift flies the skimming swallow
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Oh the sky is blue, all the fields in view
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All shimmering green and yellow

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Come, let us stray__ our gladsome way
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And view the charms of nature
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The rustling corn, oh the fruited thorn
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And every happy creature

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We'll gently walk, aye we'll sweetly talk
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'Til the silent moon shines clearly
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I'll grasp thy waist, oh I'll fondly press
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Oh, I swear I love you dearly

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No vernal showers to budding flowers
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Nor autumn to the farmer
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So dear can be, aye, as thou to me
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My fair, my lovely charmer

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No vernal showers to budding flowers
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Nor autumn to the farmer
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So dear can be, aye, as thou to me
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My fair, my lovely charmer