Orion's Cold Fire

Revenge—the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell!

Sir Walter Scott

(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