There was an Old Man of Madras

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von Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Madras,
Who rode on a cream-colored Ass;
But the length of its ears so promoted his fears,
That it killed that Old Man of Madras.

Veröffentlicht / Quelle: 
A Book of Nonsense. Boston: Roberts Brothers., 1894
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