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The Book of Nonsense

by Edward Lear

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     There was a Young Lady of Ryde,
Whose shoe-strings were seldom untied;
She purchased some clogs,
And some small spotty dogs,
And frequently walked about Ryde.

3

     There was an Old Man with a nose,
Who said, “If you choose to suppose,
That my nose is too long,
You are certainly wrong!”
That remarkable Man with a nose.

4

     There was an Old Man on a hill,
Who seldom, if ever, stood still;
He ran up and down,
In his Grandmother’s gown,
Which adorned that Old Man on a hill.

5

     There was a Young Lady whose bonnet,
Came untied when the birds sate upon it;
But she said, “I don’t care!
All the birds in the air
Are welcome to sit on my bonnet!”

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