Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). Lucy Ashton's Song. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1909. The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

Lucy Ashton’s Song

By Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)


LOOK 1 not thou on beauty’s charming;
Sit thou still when kings are arming;
Taste not when the wine-cup glistens;
Speak not when the people listens;
Stop thine ear against the singer;	5
From the red gold keep thy finger;
Vacant heart and hand and eye,
Easy live and quiet die.

Note 1. From The Legend of Montrose. [back]