There was an Old Man of Aôsta*,
Who possessed a large Cow, but he lost her;
But they said, “Don’t you see,
She has rushed up a tree?
You invidious Old Man of Aôsta!”
-Edward Lear: “A Book of Nonsense” (1846), limerick 110
*Aôsta, or Aosta, is the capital city of the Aosta Valley region in northwestern Italy.
Who possessed a large Cow, but he lost her;
But they said, “Don’t you see,
She has rushed up a tree?
You invidious Old Man of Aôsta!”
-Edward Lear: “A Book of Nonsense” (1846), limerick 110
*Aôsta, or Aosta, is the capital city of the Aosta Valley region in northwestern Italy.
