Living
Tis When the Wound Is Stiffening with the Cold
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
'Tis when the wound is stiffening with the cold,
The warrior first feels pain ; 'tis when the heat
And fiery fever of his soul is past,
The sinner feels remorse.
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Codex Note
From The Monastery (1820)
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MLA
Scott, Walter. “Tis When the Wound Is Stiffening with the Cold.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/202/.
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Scott, Walter. “Tis When the Wound Is Stiffening with the Cold.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/202/.
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