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Limerick:There was an Old Man of the Cape

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of the Cape,
Who possessed a large Barbary ape,
Till the ape one dark night
Set the house all alight,
Which burned that Old Man of the Cape.




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