Called a hen a most elegant creature.
The hen, pleased with that,
Laid an egg in his hat --
And thus did the hen reward Beecher.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)
Source: Lots of Limericks: Light, Lusty and Lasting (1961), edited, with an introduction and commentary, by Louis Untermeyer
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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