5122. Sir Walter Scott. 1771-1832. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	5122
AUTHOR:	Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)
QUOTATION:	True love ’s the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy’s hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind.
ATTRIBUTION:	Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto v. Stanza 13.
WORKS:	Sir Walter Scott Collection.