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Limerick: There was an Old Man of the Dee

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of the Dee,
Who was sadly annoyed by a flea;
When he said, 'I will scratch it,'
They gave him a hatchet,
Which grieved that Old Man of the Dee.




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