103
There was an Old Lady of Prague,
Whose language was horribly vague;
When they said, “Are these caps?”
She answered, “Perhaps!”
That oracular Lady of Prague.
104
There was an Old Person of Sparta,
Who had twenty-five sons and one daughter;
He fed them on snails,
And weighed them in scales,
That wonderful person of Sparta.
105
There was an Old Man at a easement,
Who held up his hands in amazement;
When they said, “Sir, you’ll fall!”
He replied, “Not at all!”
That incipient Old Man at a casement.