Poem by Anonymous

On Pitt’s Creation of Paper Money in War Time

Of Augustus and Rome the poets still warble, 
That he found it of brick and left it of marble. 
So of Pitt and of England they say without vapour, 
That he found it of gold, and he left it of paper. 

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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