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Limerick:There was an Old Person of Berlin

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Berlin,
Whose form was uncommonly thin;
Till he once, by mistake,
Was mixed up in a cake,
So they baked that Old Man of Berlin.




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