The Mind
Lucy Ashton Sings
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
The Mind
LOOK not thou on beauty's charming,
Sit thou still when kings are arming,
Taste not when the wine-cup glistens,
Speak not when the people listens,
Stop thine ear against the singer,
From the red gold keep thy finger ;
Vacant heart and hand and eye,
Easy live and quiet die.
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Codex Note
From The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
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