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. Inscription on a Gravestone in the Churchyard of Melrose Abbey
2. The Old Scottish Gentleman
3. Barthram’s Dirge
4. Kate Kearney
5. Loch Ina

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