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The Famous Tay Whale
| The Famous Tay Whale | |
|---|---|
| by William Topaz McGonagall | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Tay Whale |
| Publication date | 1884 |
"The Famous Tay Whale" is a poem[1] by William Topaz McGonagall about the Tay Whale, also known as the Monster, a humpback whale hunted and killed in 1883 in the Firth of Tay near Dundee, Scotland, then the country's main whaling port. The doggerel verse is famous for lacking poetic quality.
- ^ McGonagall, William (1884). "The Famous Tay Whale". McGonagall Online. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
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