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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Bohemia

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Bohemia,
Whose daughter was christened Euphemia,
Till one day, to his grief,
She married a thief,
Which grieved that Old Man of Bohemia.




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