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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

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Walter Scott
Age: 61 †
Born: 1771
Born: August 15
Died: 1832
Died: September 21
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Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree it will be growing, Jock, when ye 're sleeping.
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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.
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Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
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Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
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Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
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