There was a young person whose history
Was always considered a mystery.
There was a Young Girl of Majorca,
Whose aunt was a very fast walker;
There was an Old Man of the North,
Who fell into a basin of broth;
The was a Young Lady of Bute,
Who played on a silver-gilt flute;
There was an Old Man of Marseilles,
Whose daughters wore bottle-green veils;
There was a Young Lady of Norway,
Who casually sat on a doorway;
There was an Old Person of Buda,
Whose conduct grew ruder and ruder;
There was a Young Lady of Dorking,
Who bought a large bonnet for walking;
There was a Young Lady of Sweden,
Who went by the slow rain to Weedon;
There was an Old Man of the Nile,
Who sharpened his nails with a file,
There was an Old Man of Apulia,
Whose conduct was very peculiar
There was an Old Lady of Chertsey,
Who made a remarkable curtsey;
There was an Old Man of Peru,
Who never knew what he should do;
There was an Old Man of Columbia,
Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer;
There was a Young Lady in White,
Who looked out at the depths of the Night;
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who sat on a horse when he reared;
There was an Old Person of Rhodes,
Who strongly objected to toads;
There was an Old Man of th' Abruzzi,
So blind that he couldn't his foot see;
There was an Old Person of Basing,
Whose presence of mind was amazing;
As a little fat man of Bombay
Was smoking one very hot day,
There was an Old Sailor of Compton,
Whose vessel a rock it once bump'd on;
There was an old person of Paxo
Which complained when the fleas bit his back so,
There was an Old Man in a boat,
Who said, 'I'm afloat! I'm afloat!'
There was a Young Lady of Parma,
Whose conduct grew calmer and calmer;
There was an Old Person of Sparta,
Who had twenty-one sons and one 'darter';
There was a Young Lady of Troy,
Whom several large flies did annoy;
There was an Old Man of the coast,
Who placidly sat on a post;
There was an Old Man of Kamschatka,
Who possessed a remarkable fat cur;
There was an Old Person of Cromer,
Who stood on one leg to read Homer;
There was an Old Person of Mold,
Who shrank from sensations of cold,
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