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LIMERICK by EDWARD LEAR

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First Line: THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF SPARTA
Last Line: THAT WONDERFUL PERSON OF SPARTA.

There was an Old Person of Sparta,
Who had twenty-one sons and one 'darter';
He fed them on snails, and weighed them in scales,
That wonderful Person of Sparta.



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