Love
How Fares the Man on Whom Good Men Would Look
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Love
How fares the man on whom good men would look
With eyes where scorn and censure combated,
But that kind Christian love hath taught the lesson --
That they who merit most contempt and hate,
Do most deserve our pity.
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Codex Note
From The Fortunes of Nigel (1822)
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Scott, Walter. “How Fares the Man on Whom Good Men Would Look.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/241/.
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Scott, Walter. “How Fares the Man on Whom Good Men Would Look.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/241/.
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