English Poetry. Walter Scott. Answer. Вальтер Скотт.

Walter Scott (Вальтер Скотт)

Answer

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. 

Walter Scott’s other poems:

1. The Crusader’s Return
2. The Barefooted Friar
3. Pibroch of Donail Dhu
4. Twist Ye, Twine Ye
5. Why Sit’st Thou By That Ruin’d Hall

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Mary Montagu (Мэри Монтегю) Answer (“Though I never got possession”)

Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Answer (“O well have we done the old tasks! in the old, old ways of earth”)

1982

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