Robert Pollok Quote

Rumour was the messenger
Of defamation, and so swift, that none
Could be the first to tell an evil tale.


The Course of Time: a Poem, in Ten Books (ed. 1831)


Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.

Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.

Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.

Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale.