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There was an Old Man of New York

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There was an Old Man of New York...
by Edward Lear

No. 114 from A Book of Nonsense (1846)

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Reading of "There was an Old Man of New York"

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 There was an Old Man of New York,
 Who murdered himself with a fork;
 But nobody cried
 though he very soon died, —
 For that silly Old Man of New York.

 <Publ. 1846>