Living
Nay, Hear Me, Brother
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
NAY, hear me, brother ; I am elder, wiser,
And holier than thou ; and age, and wisdom,
And holiness, have peremptory claims,
And will be listen'd to.
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Codex Note
From The Abbot (1820)
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Scott, Walter. “Nay, Hear Me, Brother.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/212/.
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Scott, Walter. “Nay, Hear Me, Brother.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/212/.
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