A well-known person’s life story told in three Limericks
Born in London, this lad was no fool,
He was tutored at Oswestry School.
Of brains not deprived
At Oxford he thrived
And, as warden at New College, ruled.
With a wife and five children to raise
He taught for the rest of his days,
But being befuddled
His words he’d get muddled
And call foggy days, ‘doggy fays’.
It’s a tragedy one of the best
Should be famed as a figure of jest
And sadly this saint,
Who was clever though quaint,
Was at Grasmere at last ‘raid to lest’!
William Archibald Spooner
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