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LIMERICK by EDWARD LEAR

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First Line: THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF BERLIN
Last Line: SO THEY BAKED THAT OLD MAN OF BERLIN.

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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