Living
We Know Not When We Sleep nor When We Wake
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
WE know not when we sleep nor when we wake.
Visions distinct and perfect cross our eye,
Which to the slumberer seem realities ;
And while they waked, some men have seen such sights
As set at nought the evidence of sense,
And left them well persuaded they were dreaming.
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Codex Note
From Anne of Geierstein (1829)
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MLA
Scott, Walter. “We Know Not When We Sleep nor When We Wake.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/284/.
Chicago
Scott, Walter. “We Know Not When We Sleep nor When We Wake.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/284/.
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