Love
This Is the Time
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Love
THIS is the time : Heaven's maiden-sentinel
Hath quitted her high watch; the lesser spangles
Are paling one by one ; give me the ladder
And the short lever ; bid Antony
Keep with his carabine the wicket-gate ;
And do thou bare thy knife and follow me,
For we will in and do it. Darkness like this
Is dawning of our fortunes.
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Codex Note
From The Fortunes of Nigel (1822)
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Scott, Walter. “This Is the Time.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/239/.
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Scott, Walter. “This Is the Time.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/239/.
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