WorkSir Walter Scott

“Coronach”

'Coronach' (lyric within The Lady of the Lake, Canto III, stanza xvi; 1810) Inferred

Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) · lyric within The Lady of the Lake, Canto III, stanza xvi; 1810

InferredFuller quotes "wise counsel in cumber," a close variant of Walter Scott's "Coronach" funeral lament in The Lady of the Lake, Canto III, stanza xvi (1810), where Scott writes "sage counsel in cumber"; Fuller substitutes "wise" for "sage,"

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Letter to James Nathan

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“When I listen to your many perplexities, I long for the privilege of "sage counsel in cumber" but it comes not.”

Fuller, Margaret. Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846. With an introduction by Julia Ward Howe. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903.

Inferred This is a direct quotation from Walter Scott's funeral lament "Coronach," within The Lady of the Lake, Canto III, stanza xvi, published in 1810: "Fleet foot on the correi, / Sage counsel in cumber, / Red hand in the foray, / How sound is thy slumber!" Fuller does not name Scott, but the phrase "sage counsel in cumber" (using the archaic "cumber" for trouble or burden) uniquely identifies Scott's poem, a widely circulated nineteenth-century funeral elegy.

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Letter to James Nathan

p100

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“When I listen to your many perplexities I long for the privilege of "wise counsel in cumber," but it comes not.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred Fuller quotes "wise counsel in cumber," a close variant of Walter Scott's "Coronach" funeral lament in The Lady of the Lake, Canto III, stanza xvi (1810), where Scott writes "sage counsel in cumber"; Fuller substitutes "wise" for "sage,"