Living
Were Every Hair Upon His Head a Life
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
WERE every hair upon his head a life,
And every life were to be supplicated
By numbers equal to those hairs quadrupled,
Life after life should out like waning stars
Before the daybreak-- or as festive lamps,
Which have lent lustre to the midnight revel,
Each after each are quench'd when guests depart !
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Codex Note
From The Talisman (1825)
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Scott, Walter. “Were Every Hair Upon His Head a Life.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/267/.
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Scott, Walter. “Were Every Hair Upon His Head a Life.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/267/.
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