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Some New Nonsense With Same Old Lear

TEAPOTS AND QUALIB by Edward Lear (Harvard University Press, 63 page, $9.50)

There was a young author in Britain Who regretted each place he'd written.

For to earn daily 'pence,

He wrote books of nonsense,

Though with great works of art he was smitten.

Lear's fame for his Limericks rose.

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Headjusted to it, I suppose.

He sighed over Goya,

But heated his foyer,

Writting "Dong With the Luminous Nose."

Now a new book by Lear has appeared

Which to collectors will be endeared.

But for popular taste,

It may be too chaste,

For the author has since been out-Leered.

"There was an old person of Bradley

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