Thursday, December 18, 2025
Bong!
Edward Lear (1812-1888), The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense, ed. Vivien Noakes (London: Penguin Books, 2002), p. 372:
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There was an Old Person of Sestri,
Who sate himself down in the vestry;
When they said, 'You are wrong!' — he merely said 'Bong!'
That repulsive Old Person of Sestri.
