There was a Young Lady of Poole*,
Whose soup was excessively cool;
So she put it to boil,
By the aid of some oil,
That ingenious Young Lady of Poole.
-Edward Lear: “A Book of Nonsense” (1846), limerick 47
*Poole: A coastal town and seaport on England’s south coast.
Whose soup was excessively cool;
So she put it to boil,
By the aid of some oil,
That ingenious Young Lady of Poole.
-Edward Lear: “A Book of Nonsense” (1846), limerick 47
*Poole: A coastal town and seaport on England’s south coast.
