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1812–1888

There was an Old Man of Whitehaven...

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Whitehaven, Who danced a quadrille with a Raven; But they said, “It's absurd to encourage this bird!” So they smashed that Old Man of Whitehaven.

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