dots-menu
×

Home  »  The Oxford Book of English Verse  »  545. Answer

Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.

Sir Walter Scott. 1771–1832

545. 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.