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Limerick: There was an Old Sailor of Compton

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Sailor of Compton,
Whose vessel a rock it once bump'd on;
The shock was so great,
that it damaged the pate,
Of that singular Sailor of Compton.




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