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. 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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