Welcome back to the Daily Poem, a podcast from Goldberry Studios.

I'm Sean Johnson, and today is Friday, August 16th, 2004.

And if you're listening, it means you don't know what's going on on the Daily Poem or you have cheerfully endured a week of limericks and are still coming back for more.

Either way, welcome, and congratulations. We made it.

To cap off a week of Limericks, we have two more by the master, Edward Lear,

whose poetry is often full of joy and very magnanimous

because he was someone who prized magnanimity. In fact,

the alternatives or opposites to generosity and magnanimity were often visited with harsh

punishments in his poetry. So while food and festivity and hospitality are recurring themes

in Lear's poetry, vices like gluttony are frowned upon and strongly abjured in his verse, as we'll see

in one of today's poems.

But first, there was an old person of niece.

There was an old person of niece whose associates were usually geese.

They walked out together in all sorts of weather, that affable person of niece.

And finally, there was an old man of the South who had an immoderate mouth,

but in swallowing a dish that was quite full of fish, he was choked, that old man of the south.

This has been the Daily Poem.

Thanks so much for listening, and I hope my immoderate mouth has not choked your poor innocent ears, and that you'll be glad to find more of our past episodes at dailypoempod.

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Till next week, I am Sean Johnson for all of us here at Goldberry Studios,

wishing you happy reading.

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