There was an old person of Blythe*,
Who cut up his meat with a scythe;
When they said, “Well! I never!”
He cried, “Scythes for ever!”
That lively old person of Blythe.
-Edward Lear: “More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc.” (1872), limerick 72
*Blythe: The geographic area in Edward Lear’s limerick is possibly Blyth, though without the ‘e,’ a port and seaside town on the coast of England, to the south of the River Blythe, the river name having a 'e.'
Who cut up his meat with a scythe;
When they said, “Well! I never!”
He cried, “Scythes for ever!”
That lively old person of Blythe.
-Edward Lear: “More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc.” (1872), limerick 72
*Blythe: The geographic area in Edward Lear’s limerick is possibly Blyth, though without the ‘e,’ a port and seaside town on the coast of England, to the south of the River Blythe, the river name having a 'e.'
