Living
In the Wide Pile, by Others Heeded Not
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
IN the wide pile, by others heeded not,
Hers was one sacred solitary spot,
Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain,
For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain.
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Codex Note
From Rob Roy (1817)
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Scott, Walter. “In the Wide Pile, by Others Heeded Not.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/146/.
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Scott, Walter. “In the Wide Pile, by Others Heeded Not.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/146/.
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