Death & Dying
Now, by Our Lady, Sheriff, 'Tis Hard Reckoning
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Death & Dying
Now, by Our Lady, Sheriff, 'tis hard reckoning,
That I, with every odds of birth and barony,
Should be detain'd here for the casual death
Of a wild forester, whose utmost having
Is but the brazen buckle of the belt
In which he sticks his hedge-knife.
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Codex Note
From The Monastery (1820)
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Scott, Walter. “Now, by Our Lady, Sheriff, 'Tis Hard Reckoning.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/203/.
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Scott, Walter. “Now, by Our Lady, Sheriff, 'Tis Hard Reckoning.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/203/.
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