There was an Old Man on the Border
There was an Old Man on the Border
Original Text
Edward Lear, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc. (London: Robert John Bush, 1872). Unpaginated. In The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books 1566-1910, comp. Judith St. John (Toronto: Toronto Public Library, 1975), I.70.
1There was an old man on the Border,
2Who lived in the utmost disorder;
3He danced with the cat, and made tea in his hat,
4Which vexed all the folks on the Border.
Publication Start Year
1872
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1998.
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