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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Hurst

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Hurst,
Who drank when he was not athirst;
When they said, 'You'll grw fatter,'
He answered, 'What matter?'
That globular Person of Hurst.




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