There was a young bard of Japan
There was a young bard of Japan
Original Text
A Century of Humorous Verse 1850-1950, edited by Roger Lancelyn Green (London: Everyman, 1959): 289.
1There was a young bard of Japan
2Whose limericks never would scan;
3 When they said it was so,
4 He replied: `Yes, I know,
5But I make a rule of always trying to get just as many words into the last line as I possibly can."
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1999.
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