There was an Old Man of Aôsta

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There was an Old Man of Aôsta...
by Edward Lear
No. 110 from A Book of Nonsense (1846)


Picture by Edward Lear

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There was an Old Man of Aôsta,
Who possessed a large cow, but he lost her;
But they said, 'Don't you see
She has rushed up a tree?
You invidious Old Man of Aôsta!'

 <Publ. 1846>