Living
Trust Me, Each State Must Have Its Policies
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
TRUST me, each state must have its policies :
Kingdoms have edicts, cities have their charters ;
Even the wild outlaw, in his forest-walk,
Keeps yet some touch of civil discipline.
For not since Adam wore his verdant apron
Hath man with man in social union dwelt,
But laws were made to draw that union closer.
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Codex Note
From Ivanhoe (1819)
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Scott, Walter. “Trust Me, Each State Must Have Its Policies.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/183/.
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Scott, Walter. “Trust Me, Each State Must Have Its Policies.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/183/.
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