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Edward Lear

Edward Lear

Limerick: There Was an Old Person Whose Habits,

There was an Old Person whose habits,
Induced him to feed upon rabbits;
When he’d eaten eighteen,
He turned perfectly green,
Upon which he relinquished those habits.

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