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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Jamaica

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Jamaica,
Who suddenly married a Quaker;
But she cried out, 'Alack!
I have married a black!'
Which distressed that Old Man of Jamaica




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