English Poetry. Edward Lear. There Was a Young Lady of Bute. Эдвард Лир.

Edward Lear (Эдвард Лир)

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There was a Young Lady of Bute,
Who played on a silver-gilt flute;
She played several jigs,
To her uncle's white pigs,
That amusing Young Lady of Bute. 

Edward Lear’s other poems:

1. There Was a Young Person of Smyrna
2. There Was an Old Person in Gray
3. There Was An Old Person Of Basing
4. The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo
5. Cold Are The Crabs

1573

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