Living
Life, with You
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
LIFE, with you,
Glows in the brain and dances in the arteries ;
'Tis like the wine some joyous guest hath quaff'd,
That glads the heart and elevates the fancy :
Mine is the poor residuum of the cup.
Vapid, and dull, and tasteless, only soiling
With its base dregs the vessel that contains it.
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Codex Note
From The Antiquary (1816)
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