Limerick

Э. Лир

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.

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К пеликанам попал Господин,

Из достоинств имел Нос один.

Что за нос-великан!

Прошептал пеликан…

Горд был носом своим Господин!

Э. Лир

There was a Young Lady whose bonnet,
Came untied when the birds sat upon it;
But she said: 'I don't care!
All the birds in the air
Are welcome to sit on my bonnet!'

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В нашем городе Дама живет,

Из волос она кос не плетет.

Создавая уют,

Птицы гнезда там вьют!

В дружбе с птицами Дама живет.

Незнайка, Незнайкина дочь

There was a Young Man on a road,

He just recently stirred abroad.

He was running from a ball

Where he broke a crystal bowl.

‘Did you see a Young Man on a road?’