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LIMERICK by EDWARD LEAR

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First Line: THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF BANGOR
Last Line: THAT IRASCIBLE PERSON OF BANGOR.

There was an Old Person of Bangor,
Whose face was distorted with anger!
He tore off his boots, and subsisted on roots,
That irascible Person of Bangor.




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