“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.”

—  Walter Scott, book Old Mortality

Old Mortality, Chap. xxxiv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 1771–1832

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