William Topaz McGonagall,
Lines in Protest to the Dundee Magistrates
“ But, fellow-citizens, I will not submit to such an indignity For I am resolved to leave the city And bid the city a long farewell, For I cannot get protection in it to dwell, Therefore I'm resolved from it to flee For a prophet has no honour in his own country, And try to live in some other town Where the magistrates won't boycott me or try to keep me down ”
