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Limerick: There Once Was An Old Monk Of Basing: Poem by William Cosmo Monkhouse

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There once was an old monk of Basing,
Whose salads were something amazing;
But he told his confessor
That Nebuchadnezzar
Had given him hints upon grazing.

Analysis of this poem
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