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Rokeby

Rokeby
Walter Scott

Rokeby is a narrative poem in six cantos by Walter Scott. It is set in Teesdale during the English Civil War.

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“Thus aged men, full loth and slow,
The vanities of life forego,
And count their youthful follies o'er,
Till Memory lends her light no more.”

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Canto V, stanza 1.
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“No pale gradations quench his ray,
No twilight dews his wrath allay.”

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Canto VI, stanza 21.
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“Still are the thoughts to memory dear.”

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Canto I, stanza 33.
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“A mother's pride, a father's joy.”

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Canto III, stanza 15.
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“Oh, Brignal banks are wild and fair,
And Greta woods are green,
And you may gather garlands there
Would grace a summer's queen.”

Walter Scott book Rokeby

Canto III, stanza 16.
Rokeby (1813)

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