There was an Old Person of Sestri*,
Who sate himself down in the vestry**;
When they said, “You are wrong!” - he merely said “Bong!”
That repulsive Old Person of Sestri.
-Edward Lear: “More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc.” (1872), ‘One Hundred Nonsense Pictures and Rhymes,’ page 117, limerick 71
*Sestri may refer to Sestri Levante, a town in the City of Genoa, Liguria, Italy. Sestri Levante is on a peninsula on the Italian Riviera, between the Baia del Silenzio (English: Bay of Silence) and the Baia delle Favole (English: Bay of Fables, named in honor of its one-time resident Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen). Sestri may also refer to Sestri Ponente, a suburb of Geneo in northwest Italy.
**vestry: a room in which clergy put on their ceremonial clothes, or vestments, before a religious service; a vestry may also be used as storage space, or for gatherings such as prayer meetings and Sunday schools.
Who sate himself down in the vestry**;
When they said, “You are wrong!” - he merely said “Bong!”
That repulsive Old Person of Sestri.
-Edward Lear: “More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc.” (1872), ‘One Hundred Nonsense Pictures and Rhymes,’ page 117, limerick 71
*Sestri may refer to Sestri Levante, a town in the City of Genoa, Liguria, Italy. Sestri Levante is on a peninsula on the Italian Riviera, between the Baia del Silenzio (English: Bay of Silence) and the Baia delle Favole (English: Bay of Fables, named in honor of its one-time resident Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen). Sestri may also refer to Sestri Ponente, a suburb of Geneo in northwest Italy.
**vestry: a room in which clergy put on their ceremonial clothes, or vestments, before a religious service; a vestry may also be used as storage space, or for gatherings such as prayer meetings and Sunday schools.
