Thursday, March 17, 2016

A classic limerick by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The Reverend Henry Ward Beecher
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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