John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5122 Sir Walter Sott 1771-1832 John Bartlett
| 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. |