History & Politics
In Some Breasts Passion Lies Conceal'd and Silent
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
History & Politics
IN some breasts passion lies conceal'd and silent,
Like war's swart powder in a castle vault,
Until occasion, like the linstock, lights it;
Then comes at once the lightning and the thunder,
And distant echoes tell that all is rent asunder.
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Codex Note
From The Abbot (1820)
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Scott, Walter. “In Some Breasts Passion Lies Conceal'd and Silent.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/213/.
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Scott, Walter. “In Some Breasts Passion Lies Conceal'd and Silent.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/213/.
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