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The Famous Tay Whale

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Famous Tay Whale, The
Type
Poem
Language
English
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"The Famous Tay Whale" is a poem 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.

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MusicBrainz Work ID
07ea6de2-7ee6-4b98-8119-9f0ad3e16c9b
Wikidata Work ID
Q7733357

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2024-11-21