Living

My Hounds May A' Rin Masterless

by Sir Walter Scott 1771–1832

From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)

Living

[My hounds may a' rin masterless,
My hawks may fly frae tree to tree,]
My lord may grip my vassal lands,
For there again maun I never be !

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From Old Mortality (1816)

MLA

Scott, Walter. “My Hounds May A' Rin Masterless.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/142/.

Chicago

Scott, Walter. “My Hounds May A' Rin Masterless.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/142/.

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