There was an Old Person of Ems

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There was an Old Person of Ems...
by Edward Lear
No. 107 from A Book of Nonsense (1846)


Picture by Edward Lear

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There was an Old Person of Ems,
Who casually fell in the Thames;
And when he was found
They said he was drowned,
That unlucky Old Person of Ems.

 <Publ. 1846>