Poem: There Was an Old Man with a Beard
There Was an Old Man with a Beard
Edward Lear
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said “It is just how I feared—
Two Owls and a hen,
For Larks and a wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!”
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