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LIMERICK by EDWARD LEAR

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First Line: THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF THE HAGUE
Last Line: THAT DELUDED OLD MAN OF THE HAGUE.

There was an Old Man of the Hague,
Whose ideas were excessively vague;
He built a balloon to examine the moon,
That deluded Old Man of the Hague.



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