Poem by Anonymous

On a Certain Sylla

Sylla declares the world shall know
That he’s my most determined foe! 
I wish him wide the tale to spread;
For all that I from Sylla dread 
Is, that the knave, to serve some end, 
May one day swear that he’s my friend. 

[From ‘The Poetical Register’ (1801).]

1. Carlisle Yetts
2. The Flower of Yarrow
3. Gathering of Atholl
4. Ettrick Banks
5. Inscription on a Gravestone in the Churchyard of Melrose Abbey

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