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Limerick:There was an Old Man of Marseilles

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Marseilles,
Whose daughters wore bottle-green veils;
They caught several Fish,
Which they put in a dish,
And sent to their Pa' at Marseilles.




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