There was an Old Man of the Cape, <br />Who possessed a large Barbary ape, <br />Till the ape one dark night <br />Set the house all alight, <br />Which burned that Old Man of the Cape.<br /><br />Edward Lear<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/limerick-there-was-an-old-man-of-the-cape/
