Edward Lear (1812–1888) British artist, illustrator, author and poet
St. 2. <br class="br"> The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bongy-Bò http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/ybb.html (1877)
“The gentle Lady married to the Moor,
And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb.”
Personal Talk, Stanza 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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