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title: "On Andrew Turner"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1794"
location: "Dumfries"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/on-andrew-turner/"
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# On Andrew Turner

## Poem
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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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/on-andrew-turner/