Love
Glossin Sings
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Love
GIN by pailfuls, wine in rivers,
Dash the window-glass to shivers,
For three wild lads were we, brave boys,
And three wild lads were we ;
Thou on the land, and I on the sand,
And Jack on the gallows-tree !
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Codex Note
From Guy Mannering (1815)
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Scott, Walter. “Glossin Sings.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/126/.
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