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There Was An Old Man In A Tree

Edward Lear

There was an old man in a tree,
Whose whiskers were lovely to see;
But the birds of the air,
Pluck’d them perfectly bare,
To make themselves nests on that tree.
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From More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes Botany &c. | 1872
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