Limerick:There Was An Old Person Of Sparta Poem by Edward Lear

Limerick:There Was An Old Person Of Sparta

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There was an Old Person of Sparta,
Who had twenty-one sons and one 'darter';
He fed them on snails,
And weighed them in scales,
That wonderful Person of Sparta.

Edward Lear
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Topic(s) of this poem: limerick,sons
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