Living
Why Then, We Will Have Bellowing of Beeves
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
WHY then, we will have bellowing of beeves,
Broaching of barrels, brandishing of spigots ;
Blood shall flow freely, but it shall be gore
Of herds and flocks, and venison and poultry,
Join'd to the brave heart's-blood of John-a-Barleycorn !
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Codex Note
From Peveril of the Peak (1822)
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Scott, Walter. “Why Then, We Will Have Bellowing of Beeves.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/244/.
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Scott, Walter. “Why Then, We Will Have Bellowing of Beeves.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/244/.
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