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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Cromer

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Cromer,
Who stood on one leg to read Homer;
When he found he grew stiff,
He jumped over the cliff,
Which concluded that Person of Cromer.




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