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Poem by Anonymous


On the Funeral of a Rich Miser


What num’rous lights this wretch’s corpse attend,
Who, in his lifetime, saved a candle’s end!



Anonymous


Anonymous's other poems:
  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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