There was an Old Person of Tring*,
Who embellished his nose with a ring;
He gazed at the moon,
Every evening in June,
That ecstatic Old Person of Tring.
-Edward Lear: “The Book of Nonsense” (about 1887), page 64, limerick 67
*Tring is a market town in Hertfordshire, England. ‘Tring’ is derived from an Old English word believed to mean ‘slope on which trees grow.’
Who embellished his nose with a ring;
He gazed at the moon,
Every evening in June,
That ecstatic Old Person of Tring.
-Edward Lear: “The Book of Nonsense” (about 1887), page 64, limerick 67
*Tring is a market town in Hertfordshire, England. ‘Tring’ is derived from an Old English word believed to mean ‘slope on which trees grow.’
