Poem by Anonymous

Limerick. “There was a young fellow of Lyme…”

There was a young fellow of Lyme,
Who lived with three wives at a time.
	When asked, “Why the third?”
	He said, “One’s absurd,
And bigamy, sir, is a crime.”

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

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