Walter Scott - Light Quotes

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Now is the stately column broke,
The beacon-light is quench'd in smoke,
The trumpet's silver sound is still,
The warder silent on the hill!
On the death of Pitt

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Spangling the wave with lights as vain
As pleasures in the vale of pain,
That dazzle as they fade.

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A foot more light, a step more true,
Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.

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O, Woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!

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A light on Marmion's visage spread,
And fired his glazing eye:
With dying hand, above his head,
He shook the fragment of his blade,
And shouted "Victory!-
Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!"
Were the last words of Marmion.

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To all, to each, a fair goodnight,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!

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Thus aged men, full loth and slow,
The vanities of life forego,
And count their youthful follies o'er,
Till Memory lends her light no more.

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The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.

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He knew, by streamers that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light.

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