English Poetry. Walter Scott. The Truth of Woman. Вальтер Скотт.

Walter Scott (Вальтер Скотт)

The Truth of Woman

Woman's faith, and woman's trust -
Write the characters in the dust;
Stamp them on the running stream,
Print them on the moon's pale beam,
And each evanescent letter
Shall be clearer, firmer, better,
And more permanent, I ween,
Than the thing those letters mean.

I have strain'd the spider's thread
'Gainst the promise of a maid;
I have weigh'd a grain of sand
'Gainst her plight of heart and hand;
I told my true love of the token,
How her faith proved light, and her word was broken:
Again her word and truth she plight,
And I believed them again ere night. 

Walter Scott’s other poems:

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

1715

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