Poem by William Cosmo Monkhouse

Limerick: There Once Was an Old Monk of Basing

There once was an old monk of Basing,
    Whose salads were something amazing;
        But he told his confessor
        That Nebuchadnezzar
Had given him hints upon grazing.

1. De Libris
2. On a Young Poetess’s Grave
3. The Dream of the World without Death
4. A Dead March
5. The Spectrum

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