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Limerick: There Was an Old Man with a Beard

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!'




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