Death & Dying
Toll, Toll the Bell
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Death & Dying
TOLL, toll the bell !
Greatness is o'er;
The heart has broke,
To ache no more ;
An unsubstantial pageant all --
Drop o'er the scene the funeral pall.
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Codex Note
From Anne of Geierstein (1829)
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Scott, Walter. “Toll, Toll the Bell.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/289/.
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Scott, Walter. “Toll, Toll the Bell.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott/289/.
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