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There Was An Old Man Of Cape Horn

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Cape Horn,
Who wished he had never been born;
So he sat on a chair,
Till he died of despair,
That dolorous Man of Cape Horn.
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From A Book of Nonsense | 1846
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