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

Edward Lear (Эдвард Лир)

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There was a Young Lady of Portugal,
Whose ideas were excessively nautical:
She climbed up a tree,
To examine the sea,
But declared she would never leave Portugal. 

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

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