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Why have you stolen my delight      In all the golden shows of Spring     When every cherry-tree is white      And in the limes the thrushes sing,     O fickler than the April day,      O brighter than the golden broom,     O blither than the thrushes' lay,      O whiter than the cherry-bloom,     O sweeter than all things that blow ...      Why have you only left for me     The broom, the cherry's crown of snow,      And thrushes in the linden-tree?

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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