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  • The Oldie

    Don’t seek sense in nonsense

    Oct 20, 2021 2 minutes

    There was an old man on a Bycicle,
    Whose nose was adorned with an Icicle;
    But they said – ‘If you stop,
    It will certainly drop,
    & abolish both you & your Bycicle.’

    When a researcher came across this lost verse by Edward Lear the other day, she ‘laughed out loud – it was humorous and nonsensical’. I shared her delight.

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