The Man in the Moon

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The man in the moon,
Came down too soon,
To inquire his way to Norwich.
He went by the south,
And burnt his mouth
With eating cold pease porridge.


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Consider reading this nursery rhyme in verse: L. Frank Baum's The Man in the Moon.

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