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Poem by William Cosmo Monkhouse


Limerick: There Once Was a Girl of Lahore


There once was a girl of Lahore,
The same shape behind as before;
    As no one knew where
    To offer a chair,
She had to sit down on the floor.



William Cosmo Monkhouse


William Cosmo Monkhouse's other poems:
  1. On a Young Poetess’s Grave
  2. De Libris
  3. Twin-Growth
  4. The Churchyard
  5. The Summer Pool


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