Living
Twas Time and Griefs
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
'Twas time and griefs
That framed him thus : Time, with his fairer hand,
Offering the fortunes of his former days,
The former man may make him : bring us to him,
And chance it as it may.
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Codex Note
From The Black Dwarf (1816)
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Scott, Walter. “Twas Time and Griefs.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/140/.
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Scott, Walter. “Twas Time and Griefs.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/140/.
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