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Limerick: There was an Old Man of the Wrekin

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of the Wrekin
Whose shoes made a horrible creaking
But they said, 'Tell us whether,
Your shoes are of leather,
Or of what, you Old Man of the Wrekin?'


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