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  1. Frae fields whare Spring her sweets has blawn
    Wi’ caller verdure our the lawn,
    The Gowdspink comes in new attire,
    The brawest ’mang the whistling choir…

    —Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), “Ode to the Gowdspink”
    from The Poetical Works of Robert Fergusson (Glasgow, 1800)

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