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Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Norway,

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was a Young Lady of Norway,
Who casually sat on a doorway;
When the door squeezed her flat,
She exclaimed, 'What of that?'
This courageous Young Lady of Norway.




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