There was an Old Man of Madras, <br />Who rode on a cream-coloured ass; <br />But the length of its ears, <br />So promoted his fears, <br />That it killed that Old Man of Madras.<br /><br />Edward Lear<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/limerick-there-was-an-old-man-of-madras/
