There was an Old Person of Ewell, <br />Who chiefly subsisted on gruel; <br />But to make it more nice <br />He inserted some mice, <br />Which refreshed that Old Person of Ewell.<br /><br />Edward Lear<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/limerick-there-was-an-old-person-of-ewell/