poem
There was an Old Man of Quebec
Edward Lear
in The Book of Nonsense · Named on the page for Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
draft Matched to the battle automatically; not yet reviewed.
There was an Old Man of Quebec,—
A beetle ran over his neck;
But he cried, "With a needle
I'll slay you, O beadle!"
That angry Old Man of Quebec.
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