May 17, 2008 | CBC News
Bad bard William Topaz McGonagall beats J.K. Rowling in Edinburgh auction
“Ye sons of Scotland my heart often mourns, "When I think of the treatment of Robert Burns, "Because, while living, "The people unto him were seldom giving.”
The vocabulary is poor and the rhyme excruciating but a collector paid $12,840 Friday for original works by William Topaz McGonagall, internationally celebrated as the worst poet ever to assault the English ... via CBC News
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