Verse

"Lucy Ashton's Song": Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

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