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Edward Lear

Edward Lear

Limerick: There Was an Old Man Whose Despair

There was an old man whose despair
Induced him to purchase a hare:
Whereon one fine day,
He rode wholly away,
Which partly assuaged his despair.

#English #Victorians

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