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Edward Lear

Edward Lear

Limerick:There Was an Old Person of Tartary

There was an Old Person of Tartary,
Who divided his jugular artery;
But he screeched to his wife,
And she said, ‘Oh, my life!
Your death will be felt by all Tartary!’

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