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LIMERICK by EDWARD LEAR

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First Line: THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY OF PORTUGAL
Last Line: BUT DECLARED SHE WOULD NEVER LEAVE PORTUGAL.

There was a Young Lady of Portugal,
Whose ideas were excessively nautical:
She climbed up a tree, to examine the sea,
But declared she would never leave Portugal.



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