Living
Too Much Rest Is Rust
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
Too much rest is rust,
There 's ever cheer in changing;
We tyne by too much trust,
So we 'll be up and ranging.
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Codex Note
From The Betrothed (1825)
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Scott, Walter. “Too Much Rest Is Rust.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/260/.
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Scott, Walter. “Too Much Rest Is Rust.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/260/.
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