There was an Old Man of the Hague, <br />Whose ideas were excessively vague; <br />He built a balloon <br />To examine the moon, <br />That deluded Old Man of the Hague.<br /><br />Edward Lear<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/limerick-there-was-an-old-man-of-the-hague/
