The poem
IN se’enteen hunder’n forty-nine, The deil gat stuff to mak a swine, An’ coost it in a corner; But wilily he chang’d his plan, An’ shap’d it something like a man, An’ ca’d it Andrew Turner.
Epigram on Andrew Turner
481Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
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