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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Kildare

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Kildare,
Who climbed into a very old chair;
When he said,-- "Here I stays,--
till the end of my days,"
That immovable Man of Kildare.




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