The Book of Nonsense/There was an Old Man with a gong

by Edward Lear

 

There was an Old Man with a gong,
Who bumped at it all the day long;
⁠But they called out, "Oh, law!
⁠You're a horrid old bore!"
So they smashed that Old Man with a gong.

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