History & Politics
A Minstrel Sings
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
History & Politics
WHAT brave chief shall head the forces
Where the red-cross legions gather?
Best of horsemen, best of horses,
Highest head and fairest feather.
Ask not Austria, why 'mid princes
Still her banner rises highest ;
Ask as well the strong-wing'd eagle
Why to heaven he soars the nighest.
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Codex Note
From The Talisman (1825)
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Scott, Walter. “A Minstrel Sings.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/264/.
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