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. Ettrick Banks
2. The Banks o’ Glaizart
3. My Wife Has Ta'en the Gee
4. Barthram’s Dirge
5. Fare Ye Weel, My Auld Wife

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