Poem by Anonymous

On a Certain Marcus

Why durst thou offer, Marcus, to aver 
Nature abhorr’d a vacuum? – confer 
But with your empty skull, then you’ll agree 
Nature will suffer a vacuity. 

Anon. 
[From the Latin of John Owen.] 

1. Carlisle Yetts
2. Gathering of Atholl
3. Ettrick Banks
4. Inscription on a Gravestone in the Churchyard of Melrose Abbey
5. Barthram’s Dirge

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