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Limerick: There Was an Old Man who said, "Well'

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man who said, 'Well!
Will nobody answer this bell?
I have pulled day and night,
Till my hair has grown white,
But nobody answers this bell!'




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