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Limerick: There was an Old Man with a Gong

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man with a gong,
Who bumped at it all day long;
But they called out, 'O law!
You're a horrid old bore!'
So they smashed that Old Man with a gong.




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