《Poems and Songs of Robert Burns》Song—i dreamd i lay

  song—i dreamd i lay
  i dreamd i lay where flowers were springing
  gaily in the sunny beam;
  listning to the wild birds singing,
  by a falling crystal stream:
  straight the sky grew black and daring;
  thro the woods the whirlwinds rave;
  tress with aged arms were warring,
  oer the swelling drumlie wave.
  such was my lifesceitful morning,
  such the pleasures i enjoyed:
  but lang or noon, loud tempests storming
  a my flowery blissstroyd.
  tho fickle fortune hasceivd me—
  she promisd fair, and performd but ill,
  of mony a joy and hope bereavd me—
  i bear a heart shall support me still.