THERE WAS A YOUNG BARD OF JAPAN - Amy Levy Poems

 
 

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THERE WAS A YOUNG BARD OF JAPAN

There was a young bard of Japan
Whose limericks never would scan;
     When they said it was so,
     He replied: `Yes, I know,
But I make a rule of always trying to get just as many words into the last line as I possibly can."