Read full poem →Her infant friendship had bestowed on him;
Herself the solitary scion left
Of a time-honoured race.[42]--It was a name
Dictionary Entry
A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.
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. scionwood scionscion lastscion youngscion worthyscion another
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Poetry examples for “scion”
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Read full poem →In fight unequal, by an obscure hand,
Fell the last scion of thy brood of Kings!
Read full poem →Out of the lion;
Grafts gentlest scion
On pirate and Turk.