Lucy Ashtons Song
Read 'Lucy Ashtons Song' by 'Sir Walter Scott' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
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.
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