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There Was An Old Person Of Fife

10/19/2025

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Sketch by Edward Lear of a man sitting on the ground with a bowl of salad, as a man and a woman holding a songbook sing, and the words, Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.
There was an Old Person of Fife*,
Who was greatly disgusted with life;
     They sang him a ballad,
     And fed him on salad,
Which cured that Old Person of Fife.
-Edward Lear: “More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc.” (1872), ‘One Hundred Nonsense Pictures and Rhymes,’ limerick 25
 
*Fife: A peninsula in east central Scotland, also known as the Kingdom of Fife. The word ‘peninsula’ is derived from the Latin phrase ‘paene insula,’ meaning ‘almost an island.’
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