Poem by Anonymous

On the Phrase “To Kill Time”

There’s scarce a point whereon mankind agree 
So well, as in their boast of killing me; 
I boast of nothing, but, when I’ve a mind,
I think I can be even with mankind.

(From Voltaire. Dodd’s Select Epigrams)

1. Gathering of Atholl
2. Lord Strafford’s Meditations in the Tower
3. The Bells of Fletching
4. The Old Scottish Gentleman
5. Barthram’s Dirge

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