Living
On Andrew Turner
From Poems and Songs, 1794
Living
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.
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Burns, Robert. “On Andrew Turner.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/474/.
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Burns, Robert. “On Andrew Turner.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/burns/474/.
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