Poem by Edward Lear

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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. 

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2. There Was An Old Man Of Jamaica
3. Cold Are The Crabs
4. Imitation of The Olden Poets
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