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Limerick:There was a Young Lady of Wales

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was a Young Lady of Wales,
Who caught a large fish without scales;
When she lifted her hook
She exclaimed, 'Only look!'
That ecstatic Young Lady of Wales.




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