Nature
Here Is a Father Now
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Nature
HERE is a father now
Will truck his daughter for a foreign venture.
Make her the stop-gap to some canker'd feud,
Or fling her o'er, like Jonah, to the fishes,
To appease the sea at highest.
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Codex Note
From The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
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Scott, Walter. “Here Is a Father Now.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/168/.
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Scott, Walter. “Here Is a Father Now.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/168/.
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