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

Clarion

Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)

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.