Love

Sir Piercie Shafton Sings

by Sir Walter Scott 1771–1832

From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)

Love

WHAT tongue can her perfections tell,
On whose each part all pens may dwell.

(ETCETERA, to the extent of about five hundred verses, ending thus :)
Of whose high praise and praiseful bliss,
Goodness the pen, Heaven paper is ;
The ink immortal fame doth send :
As I began so I must end.

✦ ✦ ✦

From The Monastery (1820)

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