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. On a Young Poetess’s Grave
2. A Dead March
3. De Libris
4. The Churchyard
5. Twin-Growth

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