Nature
Life Hath Its May, and All Is Mirthful Then
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Nature
LIFE hath its May, and all is mirthful then:
The woods are vocal, and the flowers all odour ;
Its very blast has mirth in 't, -- and the maidens,
The while they don their cloaks to screen their kirtles,
Laugh at the rain that wets them.
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Codex Note
From The Abbot (1820)
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Scott, Walter. “Life Hath Its May, and All Is Mirthful Then.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/211/.
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Scott, Walter. “Life Hath Its May, and All Is Mirthful Then.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/211/.
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