History & Politics
Marry, Come Up, Sir, with Your Gentle Blood
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
History & Politics
MARRY, come up, sir, with your gentle blood !
Here's a red stream beneath this coarse blue doublet,
That warms the heart as kindly as if drawn
From the far source of old Assyrian kings,
Who first made mankind subject to their sway.
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Codex Note
From The Fortunes of Nigel (1822)
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Scott, Walter. “Marry, Come Up, Sir, with Your Gentle Blood.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/242/.
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Scott, Walter. “Marry, Come Up, Sir, with Your Gentle Blood.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/242/.
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