English Poetry. Edward Lear. There Was an Old Man of Peru. Эдвард Лир. Жил старик в государстве Ирак

Edward Lear (Эдвард Лир)

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There was an old man of Peru,
Who dreamt he was eating his shoe.
	He awoke in the night
	In a terrible fright,
And found it was perfectly true.

Перевод на русский язык

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Жил старик в государстве Ирак,
Он во сне ел дырявый башмак.
	Но, проснувшись в бреду,
	Вдруг узнал на беду,
Что всё было действительно так.

Перевод Леонида Зимана
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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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