William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.
Twist Ye, Twine Ye!Sir Walter Scott (17711832)
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Mingle shades of joy and woe,
Hope and fear and peace and strife,
Is the thread of human life.
And the infant’s life beginning,
Dimly seen through twilight bending,
Lo, what varied shapes attending!
Pleasures soon exchanged for pain;
Doubt and jealousy and fear,
In the magic dance appear.
Whirling with the whirling spindle.
Twist ye, twine ye! even so
Mingle human bliss and woe.