There Was a Young Lady of Ryde
Edward Lear
1812 to 1888
There was a Young Lady of Ryde,
Whose shoe-strings were seldom untied;
She purchased some clogs, and some small spotty dogs,
And frequently walked about Ryde.
Edward Lear's There Was a Young Lady of Ryde
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