Quote#Beauty
BEAUTIFUL Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay !
Quote byWilliam McGonagall · 1825–1902
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay (1878), Written before the disaster..
English (original)
BEAUTIFUL Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay ! With your numerous arches and pillars in so grand array And your central girders, which seem to the eye To be almost towering to the sky.
— William McGonagall
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