History & Politics
Full in the Midst a Mighty Pile Arose
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
History & Politics
FULL in the midst a mighty pile arose
Where iron-grated gates their strength oppose
To each invading step ; and strong and steep
The 'battled walls rose up, the fosse sunk deep.
Slow round the fortress rolled the sluggish stream,
And high in middle air the warder's turrets gleam.
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Codex Note
From Quentin Durward (1823)
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Scott, Walter. “Full in the Midst a Mighty Pile Arose.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/249/.
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Scott, Walter. “Full in the Midst a Mighty Pile Arose.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/249/.
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