Nature
Fortune, You Say, Flies from Us
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Nature
FORTUNE, you say, flies from us ; she but circles
Like the fleet sea-bird round the fowler's skiff, --
Lost in the mist one moment, and the next
Brushing the white sail with her whiter wing,
As if to court the aim. -- Experience watches,
And has her on the wheel.
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Codex Note
From The Antiquary (1816)
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Scott, Walter. “Fortune, You Say, Flies from Us.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/137/.
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Scott, Walter. “Fortune, You Say, Flies from Us.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/137/.
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