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Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Ryde

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was a Young Lady of Ryde,
Whose shoe-strings were seldom untied.
She purchased some clogs,
And some small spotted dogs,
And frequently walked about Ryde




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