Living
Thy Time Is Not Yet Out
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
THY time is not yet out -- the devil thou servest
Has not as yet deserted thee. He aids
The friends who drudge for him, as the blind man
Was aided by the guide, who lent his shoulder
O'er rough and smooth, until he reach'd the brink
Of the fell precipice-- then hurl'd him downward.
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Codex Note
From Quentin Durward (1823)
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Scott, Walter. “Thy Time Is Not Yet Out.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/253/.
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Scott, Walter. “Thy Time Is Not Yet Out.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/253/.
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