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Слушать(AI)Limerick There Was an Old Man with a Beard
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!'
Edward Lear
Edward Lear (12 May 1812, Holloway[1][2] – 29 January 1888, Sanremo) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, now known mo
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