Living
Sound, Sound the Clarion, Fill the Fife
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
SOUND, sound the clarion, fill the fife !
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
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Codex Note
From Old Mortality (1816)
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MLA
Scott, Walter. “Sound, Sound the Clarion, Fill the Fife.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/143/.
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Scott, Walter. “Sound, Sound the Clarion, Fill the Fife.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/143/.
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