There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ
There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ
Original Text
Edward Lear, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc. (London: Robert John Bush, 1872). Unpaginated. 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 of Thermopylæ,
2Who never did anything properly;
3But they said, "If you choose, To boil eggs in your shoes,
4You shall never remain in Thermopylæ."
Publication Start Year
1872
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1998.
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