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Limerick: There Was an Old Man in a Tree

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was horribly bored by a bee.
When they said "Does it buzz?"
He replied "Yes, it does!
It's a regular brute of a bee!"




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