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Limerick:There was an Old Man of Whitehaven

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Whitehaven,
Who danced a quadrille with a raven;
But they said, 'It's absurd
To encourage this bird!'
So they smashed that Old Man of Whitehaven.




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