News at Eleven: The 19th century Scots bard's

notorious lament for The Tay Bridge Disaster:

And the cry rang out all o'er the town, Good Heavens! the Tay Bridge is blown down

has been challenged in favour of a single appalling last line by a more exotic British versifier, Theophile Jules-Henri Marzials: "Dro /Dead./Plop, flop./Plop".

from The Guardian: New contender for world's worst poem

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