English Poetry. Edward Lear. There Was a Young Person of Smyrna. Эдвард Лир.

Edward Lear (Эдвард Лир)

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There was a Young Person of Smyrna,
Whose Grandmother threatened to burn her;
But she seized on the cat,
And said, 'Granny, burn that!
You incongruous Old Woman of Smyrna!'

Edward Lear’s other poems:

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

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