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Edward Lear

Edward Lear

Limerick: There Was an Old Man of Kildare

There was an Old Man of Kildare,
Who climbed into a very old chair;
When he said,—'Here I stays,—
till the end of my days,'
That immovable Man of Kildare.

#English #Victorians

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