Text:There was an Old Man with a beard

Aus: Edward Lear, A Book of Nonsense, 1846

Es wor a Oida mit an Boart

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Es wor a Oida mit an Boart,
Dea sogd, "des is ganz schee hoart!
Zwoa Ain, a Gigal,
Via Leachn, a Finkal
Hom oi baut ia Nest in meim Boart!"

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There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!'

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