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Limerick: There was an Old Man of the North

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of the North,
Who fell into a basin of broth;
But a laudable cook,
Fished him out with a hook,
Which saved that Old Man of the North




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I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

• Maya Angelou



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