Love
When Beauty Leads the Lion in Her Toils
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Love
WHEN beauty leads the lion in her toils,
Such are her charms, he dare not raise his mane,
Far less expand the terror of his fangs,
So great Alcides made his club a distaff,
And spun to please fair Omphale.
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Codex Note
From The Talisman (1825)
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Scott, Walter. “When Beauty Leads the Lion in Her Toils.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/268/.
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Scott, Walter. “When Beauty Leads the Lion in Her Toils.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/268/.
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