There was an Old Person of Rimini*,
Who said, “Gracious! Goodness! O Gimini!”
When they said, “Please be still!”
She ran down a hill,
And was never more heard of at Rimini.
-Edward Lear: “More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc.” (1872), limerick 74
*Rimini: A city in Northern Italy, at the end of the Po Valley, and on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.
Who said, “Gracious! Goodness! O Gimini!”
When they said, “Please be still!”
She ran down a hill,
And was never more heard of at Rimini.
-Edward Lear: “More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc.” (1872), limerick 74
*Rimini: A city in Northern Italy, at the end of the Po Valley, and on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.
