'How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!"
Who has written such volumes of stuff!
Some think him ill-tempered and queer,
But a few think him pleasant enough.
In pitch darkness, after a fifteen hours' journey in Greece, he went to sit on a rock but sat on a cow. He remarked cheerfully, "There was an old man who said / Now I'll sit down on the horns of that cow..."
--Peter Levi, The Art of Poetry
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Say what?
Just a little spontaneous response to the vagaries of the universe--stones turning out to be cows and so on. I love Edward Lear...
Posted for Mary B:
Dern thing would not post to FB--alas!
On 7/10/2012 10:15 AM, Mary Bullington wrote:
http://www.itsbullfrog.com/guests/lear/limericks.htm
There was an Old Person of Ware
Who rode on the back of a Bear;
When they ask'd, 'Does it trot?'
He said, 'Certainly not!
He's a Moppsikon Floppsikon Bear!'
I illustrated this once, in cayola and black pen--wish I had a photo.
Eep, just realized you were trying to post to facebook! Oh, well.
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