There was an Old Man of Whitehaven

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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.

Veröffentlicht / Quelle: 
A Book of Nonsense. Boston: Roberts Brothers., 1894
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