THERE ONCE WAS A YOUNG MAN OF GHENT - Amy Levy Poems

 
 

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THERE ONCE WAS A YOUNG MAN OF GHENT

There once was a young man of Ghent
Whose tool was so long that it bent.
     To save himself trouble
     He put it in double,
And instead of coming, he went.