Living
Major Bellenden Sings
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
AND what though winter will pinch severe
Through locks of grey and a cloak that's old,
Yet keep up thy heart, bold cavalier,
For a cup of sack shall fence the cold.
For time will rust the brightest blade,
And years will break the strongest bow ;
Was never wight so starkly made,
But time and years would overthrow.
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Codex Note
From Old Mortality (1816)
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