Religion
It Is Not Texts Will Do It
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Religion
IT is not texts will do it: Church artillery
Are silenced soon by real ordnance,
And canons are but vain opposed to cannon.
Go, coin your crosier, melt your church plate down,
Bid the starved soldier banquet in your halls,
And quaff your long-saved hogsheads ; turn them out
Thus primed with your good cheer, to guard your wall,
And they will venture for 't.
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Codex Note
From The Monastery (1820)
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MLA
Scott, Walter. “It Is Not Texts Will Do It.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/207/.
Chicago
Scott, Walter. “It Is Not Texts Will Do It.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/207/.
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