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Home » English Poets » Edward Lear

Limerick: There was an Old Man of Apulia

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Apulia,
Whose conduct was very peculiar
He fed twenty sons,
Upon nothing but buns,
That whimsical Man of Apulia.


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