History & Politics
In the Wild Storm
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
History & Politics
IN the wild storm,
The seaman hews his mast down, and the merchant
Heaves to the billows wares he once deem'd precious :
So prince and peer, 'mid popular contentions,
Cast off their favourites.
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Codex Note
From The Abbot (1820)
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