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LIMERICK by EDWARD LEAR

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First Line: THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF THE CAPE
Last Line: WHICH BURNED THAT OLD MAN OF THE CAPE.

There was an Old Man of the Cape,
Who possessed a large Barbary ape,
Till the ape one dark night set the house all alight,
Which burned that Old Man of the Cape.



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