Living
O Sleep Ye Sound, Sir James
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
O SLEEP ye sound, Sir James, she said,
When ye suld rise and ride !
There 's twenty men, wi' bow and blade,
Are seeking where ye hide.
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Codex Note
From The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
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Scott, Walter. “O Sleep Ye Sound, Sir James.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/152/.
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Scott, Walter. “O Sleep Ye Sound, Sir James.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/152/.
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