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Limerick: There was a Young Lady of Turkey

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was a Young Lady of Turkey,
Who wept when the weather was murky;
When the day turned out fine,
She ceased to repine,
That capricious Young Lady of Turkey.




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