There was an Old Man of the Hague, Whose ideas were excessively vague; He built a balloon To examine the moon, That deluded Old Man of the Hague.

There was an Old Man of the Hague,
Whose ideas were excessively vague;
He built a balloon
To examine the moon,
That deluded Old Man of the Hague.

by Edward Lear from A Book of Nonsense (1846)
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