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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Cape Horn,

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Cape Horn,
Who wished he had never been born;
So he sat on a chair,
Till he died of despair,
That dolorous Man of Cape Horn.




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