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LIMERICK by EDWARD LEAR

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First Line: THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF VESUVIUS
Last Line: THAT MORBID OLD MAN OF VESUVIUS.
There was an Old Man of Vesuvius,
Who studied the works of Vitruvius;
When the flames burnt his book, to drinking he took,
That morbid Old Man of Vesuvius.



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