Living
Indifferent, but Indifferent
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
INDIFFERENT, but indifferent -- pshaw ! he doth it not
Like one who is his craft's master -- ne'ertheless
I have seen a clown confer a bloody coxcomb
On one who was a master of defence.
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Codex Note
From The Monastery (1820)
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Scott, Walter. “Indifferent, but Indifferent.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/200/.
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Scott, Walter. “Indifferent, but Indifferent.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/200/.
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