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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Philæ,

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Philæ,
Whose conduct was scroobious and wily;
He rushed up a Palm,
When the weather was calm,
And observed all the ruins of Philæ.




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