Andrew: Let us not leave the subject of Scotland and her many marvels
without a passing tribute to that noble country’s most… enthusiastic poet,
William McGonagall. Did you know that the Bard of Dundee once apostrophized
the very city in which you now earn your neaps and tatties? “Oh mighty City
of New York! you are wonderful to behold, / Your buildings are magnificent,
the truth be it told, / They were the only things that seemed to arrest my
eye, / Because many of them are thirteen storeys high…” But it was in the
contemplation of disasters that mighty McGonagall truly soared above the
Aonian mount. Who that has read them can possibly forget his verses on the
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