Love
Nay, If She Love Me Not, I Care Not for Her
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Love
NAY, if she love me not, I care not for her :
Shall I look pale because the maiden blooms ?
Or sigh because she smiles--and smiles on others ?
Not I, by Heaven ! -- I hold my peace too dear,
To let it, like the plume upon her cap,
Shake at each nod that her caprice shall dictate.
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Codex Note
From The Antiquary (1816)
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Scott, Walter. “Nay, If She Love Me Not, I Care Not for Her.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/138/.
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Scott, Walter. “Nay, If She Love Me Not, I Care Not for Her.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/138/.
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