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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Cadiz

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Cadiz,
Who was always polite to all ladies;
But in handing his daughter,
He fell into the water,
Which drowned that Old Person of Cadiz.




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