Don’t seek sense in nonsense
Oct 20, 2021
2 minutes
There was an old man on a Bycicle,
Whose nose was adorned with an Icicle;
But they said – ‘If you stop,
It will certainly drop,
& abolish both you & your Bycicle.’
When a researcher came across this lost verse by Edward Lear the other day, she ‘laughed out loud – it was humorous and nonsensical’. I shared her delight.
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