Living
A Mirthful Man He Was
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Living
A MIRTHFUL man he was ; the snows of age
Fell, but they did not chill him. Gaiety,
Even in life's closing, touch'd his teeming brain
With such wild visions as the setting sun
Raises in front of some hoar glacier,
Painting the bleak ice with a thousand hues.
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Codex Note
From Anne of Geierstein (1829)
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