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Original text: [Edward Lear,] Book of Nonsense (London: Thomas McLean, Feb. 10, 1846). Unpaginated. In The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books 1566-1910, comp. Judith St. John (Toronto: Toronto Public Library, 1975), I.69.
First publication date: 1846
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 2:2002/4/4

Form: limerick
Rhyme: aabba