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Limerick:There was an Old Person of Ewell

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Ewell,
Who chiefly subsisted on gruel;
But to make it more nice
He inserted some mice,
Which refreshed that Old Person of Ewell.




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