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ON ANDREW TURNER by ROBERT BURNS

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First Line: IN SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE
Last Line: AN' CA'D IT ANDREW TURNER.
Subject(s): EPITAPHS;
In seventeen hundred and 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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