Death & Dying
Still in His Dead Hand Clench'd Remain the Strings
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Death & Dying
STILL in his dead hand clench'd remain the strings
That thrill his father's heart -- e'en as the limb,
Lopp'd off and laid in grave, retains, they tell us,
Strange commerce with the mutilated stump,
Whose nerves are twingeing still in maim'd existence.
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Codex Note
From The Antiquary (1816)
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