Living
Here We Have One Head
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
HERE we have one head
Upon two bodies : your two-headed bullock
Is but an ass to such a prodigy.
These two have but one meaning, thought, and counsel ;
And when the single noddle has spoke out,
The four legs scrape assent to it.
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Codex Note
From Woodstock (1826)
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Scott, Walter. “Here We Have One Head.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/273/.
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Scott, Walter. “Here We Have One Head.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/273/.
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