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Limerick: There was an Old Lady of Chertsey

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Lady of Chertsey,
Who made a remarkable curtsey;
She twirled round and round,
Till she sunk underground,
Which distressed all the people of Chertsey.




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