Эдвард Лир. There was an Old Person of Dover

                Лимерик

          Однажды из Дувра старик
          На клеверном поле возник;
          Но пчёлы большие без лени
          Ужалили нос и колени,
          В Дувр быстро вернулся старик.
             
         
          There was an Old Person of Dover,    
          Who rushed through a field of blue clover;   
          But some very large bees            
          Stung his nose and his knees,   
          So he very soon went back to Dover.
               
                Edward Lear
                (1812-1888)
    


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English artist, traveller and writer. He wrote and illustrated many books most of which fall into one of two categories, travel or children's verse. Under the patronage of the thirteenth Earl of Derby he travelled widely and produced many illustrated works detailing his experiences. Sketches of Rome (1842), and Illustrated Excursions in Italy (1846) are his most well known travel books. A greater part of his important works for children were written after 1870, these include Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1870), More Nonsense Rhymes (1871), and Laughable Lyrics (1876).