Love
I Glance like the Wildfire
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Love
I GLANCE like the wildfire through country and town ;
I'm seen on the causeway -- I'm seen on the down ;
The lightning that flashes so bright and so free,
Is scarcely so blithe or so bonny as me.
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Codex Note
From The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
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Scott, Walter. “I Glance like the Wildfire.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/153/.
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Scott, Walter. “I Glance like the Wildfire.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/153/.
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