Edward Lear Small 320×188 Medium 640×377 Large 1024×603 Download Tiff Original 2354×1386 | (3.1 MB) Description There was an old person of Sparta; Who had twenty-five sons and one daughter; He fed them on snails; And weighed them in scales; That wonderful person of Sparta. Keywords Edward Lear, men, nonsense poetry, surprise, winter, winter clothing Galleries Edward Lear, Literature: L Source: Arthur Mee and Holland Thompson, eds. The Book of Knowledge (New York, NY: The Grolier Society, 1912)
