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Poem by Edward Lear


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There was an Old Person of Ware,
Who rode on the back of a bear;
	When they ask’d, “Does it trot?”
        He said, “Certainly not!
He’s a Moppsikon Floppsikon bear!”



Edward Lear


Edward Lear's other poems:
  1. There was an Old Person of Ischia
  2. There was an Old Person of Leeds
  3. There was an Old Man with a gong
  4. There was an Old Man in a barge
  5. There was an Old Man of the West


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