A poem in the style of William Topaz McGonagall on an issue of contemporary relevance to the Scot
Beleaguered city of Edinburgh!
You are not as glorious as once you were.
Your bank’s headquarters, so some do say,
Will be moving to London which is a very long way away!
‘Twas on the eighteenth of September in the year 2008,
A date which will long be rued I am sorry to relate,
That Scotland’s bank, set in this magnificent city,
Did get taken over which is a very great pity.
Many people with sorrowful faces did say, ‘It is a disgrace
That Edinburgh is no longer a famed financial base
And that, now our city is so tragically undone,
Our best lawyers and accountants will dwell in London.’
But times do change and, with time ever on our side,
Our bosoms will again swell with pride,
And the more we become of our own fate the master
The less chance we have of having another disaster.
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