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Limerick:There was an Old Man of Aôsta

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Aôsta,
Who possessed a large cow, but he lost her;
But they said, 'Don't you see
She has rushed up a tree?
You invidious Old Man of Aôsta!'




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