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Limerick: There Was an Old Man on a Hill

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man on a hill,
Who seldom, if ever, stood still;
He ran up and down,
In his Grandmother's gown,
Which adorned that Old Man on a hill.




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