Living
Arouse the Tiger of Hyrcanian Deserts
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
Arouse the tiger of Hyrcanian deserts,
Strive with the half-starved lion for his prey ;
Lesser the risk, than rouse the slumbering fire
Of wild Fanaticism.
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Codex Note
From Ivanhoe (1819)
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Scott, Walter. “Arouse the Tiger of Hyrcanian Deserts.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/184/.
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Scott, Walter. “Arouse the Tiger of Hyrcanian Deserts.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/184/.
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