Living
Why, Now I Have Dame Fortune by the Forelock
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
WHY, now I have Dame Fortune by the forelock,
And if she 'scapes my grasp, the fault is mine ;
He that hath buffeted with stern adversity
Best knows to shape his course to favouring breezes.
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Codex Note
From The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
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Scott, Walter. “Why, Now I Have Dame Fortune by the Forelock.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/169/.
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Scott, Walter. “Why, Now I Have Dame Fortune by the Forelock.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/169/.
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