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(Editor’s note: two opposite takes on war by Scott)
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
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War’s a fearsome thing. They’ll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.
Sir Walter Scott
Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord;
That which molders hemp and steel,
Mortal arm and nerve must feel.
Sir Walter Scott
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott
Too much rest is rust.
Sir Walter Scott