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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Ischia

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Ischia,
Whose conduct grew friskier and friskier;
He dance hornpipes and jigs,
And ate thousands of figs,
That lively Old Person of Ischia.




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