History & Politics
O, Sadly Shines the Morning Sun
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
History & Politics
O, SADLY shines the morning sun
On leaguer'd castle wall,
When bastion, tower, and battlement,
Seem nodding to their fall.
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Codex Note
From The Betrothed (1825)
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Scott, Walter. “O, Sadly Shines the Morning Sun.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/259/.
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