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Edward Lear
12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888 / London / England
Limerick: There Was An Old Sailor Of Compton
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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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