There was an Old Man of the Wrekin*,
Whose shoes made a horrible creaking
But they said, ‘Tell us whether,
Your shoes are of leather,
Or of what, you Old Man of the Wrekin?’
-Edward Lear: “A Book of Nonsense” (1846), page 69, limerick 29
*The Wrekin is a prominent hill in east Shropshire, England, as well as being the name of a nearby borough that has come to be known as Telford And Wrekin.
Note: Some versions of Edward Lear’s limerick poem may read ‘the Wrekin,’ and other versions may read ‘Wrekin’ without the article ‘the.’
Whose shoes made a horrible creaking
But they said, ‘Tell us whether,
Your shoes are of leather,
Or of what, you Old Man of the Wrekin?’
-Edward Lear: “A Book of Nonsense” (1846), page 69, limerick 29
*The Wrekin is a prominent hill in east Shropshire, England, as well as being the name of a nearby borough that has come to be known as Telford And Wrekin.
Note: Some versions of Edward Lear’s limerick poem may read ‘the Wrekin,’ and other versions may read ‘Wrekin’ without the article ‘the.’
