Lucy Ashton's Song
1771-1832
LOOK not thou on beauty's charming;
Sit thou still when kings are arming;
Taste not when the wine-cup glistens;
Speak not when the people listens;
Stop thine ear against the singer;
From the red gold keep thy finger;
Vacant heart and hand and eye,
Easy live and quiet die.
DayPoems Poem No. 496
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/496.html">Lucy Ashton's Song by Sir Walter Scott</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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