“Who, or why, or which, or what,
Is the Akond of Swat?”

— Edward Lear

The Akond of Swat http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/akond.html, l. 1 (1877).

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British artist, illustrator, author and poet 1812–1888

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