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Limerick: There was an Old Person in Gray

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Person in Gray,
Whose feelings were tinged with disman;
She purchased two Parrots,
And fed them with Carrots,
Which pleased that Old Person in Gray.




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