by Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
The aquiline snub Matches base text
Language: English
There was an old man with a nose Who said, "If you choose to suppose That my nose is too long, you are certainly wrong," That remarkable man with a nose.
Composition:
- Set to music by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), as Karel Drofnatski, "The aquiline snub", op. 375, published 1960 [ voice and piano ], from Nonsense Rhymes, no. 9
Text Authorship:
- by Edward Lear (1812 - 1888), no title, appears in A Book of Nonsense, first published 1861
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 31