Death & Dying
Dire Was His Thought, Who First in Poison Steep'd
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Death & Dying
DIRE was his thought, who first in poison steep'd
The weapon form'd for slaughter--direr his,
And worthier of damnation, who instill'd
The mortal venom in the social cup,
To fill the veins with death instead of life.
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Codex Note
From Rob Roy (1817)
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Scott, Walter. “Dire Was His Thought, Who First in Poison Steep'd.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/147/.
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Scott, Walter. “Dire Was His Thought, Who First in Poison Steep'd.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/147/.
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