Living
Here Come We to Our Close
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
HERE come we to our close, -- for that which follows
Is but the tale of dull, unvaried misery.
Steep crags and headlong linns may court the pencil,
Like sudden haps, dark plots, and strange adventures ;
But who would paint the dull and fog-wrapt moor,
In its long tract of sterile desolation ?
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Codex Note
From St. Ronan's Well (1824)
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