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Limerick: There was an Old Person of Wick

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Wick,
Who said, 'Tick-a-Tick, Tick-a-Tick;
Chickabee, Chickabaw.'
And he said nothing more,
That laconic Old Person of Wick




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