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LIMERICK by EDWARD LEAR

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First Line: THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF THE WREKIN
Last Line: OR OF WHAT, YOU OLD MAN OF THE WREKIN?'

There was an Old Man of the Wrekin
Whose shoes made a horrible creaking
But they said, 'Tell us whether, your shoes are of leather,
Or of what, you Old Man of the Wrekin?'



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