The Book of Nonsense/There was a Young Person of Smyrna

by Edward Lear

Reading of the poem "There was a Young Person of Smyrna"

 

There was a Young Person of Smyrna,
Whose grandmother threatened to burn her;
⁠But she seized on the cat,
⁠And said, "Granny, burn that!
You incongruous old woman of Smyrna!"