Living
You Call It an Ill Angel
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
You call it an ill angel-- it may be so ;
But sure I am, among the ranks which fell,
'Tis the first fiend ere counsell'd man to rise,
And win the bliss the sprite himself had forfeited.
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Codex Note
From The Monastery (1820)
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MLA
Scott, Walter. “You Call It an Ill Angel.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/204/.
Chicago
Scott, Walter. “You Call It an Ill Angel.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/204/.
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