They put arsenic in his meat

And stared aghast to watch him eat;

They poured strychnine in his cup

And shook to see him drink it up;

They shook, they stared as white’s their shirt:

Them it was their poison hurt.

– I tell the tale that I heard told.

Mithridates, he died old.

– A. E. HOUSMAN

A Shropshire Lad


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