Edward Lear

12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888 / London / England

Limerick:There Was An Old Man Of Whitehaven

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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