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Today’s Poem: The Owl and the Pussycat

Today’s Poem: The Owl and the Pussycat

Edward Lear and the sublimity of nonsense

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The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear, 1871 (Wikimedia Commons)

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