There was an Old Man of Vesuvius,
Who studied the works of Vitruvius;
When the flames burnt his book, to drinking he took,
That morbid Old Man of Vesuvius.
Edward Lear
Man Of Vesuvius
Filed Under: Limericks by Edward Lear
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