There was a young lady from Norway

There was a young lady from Norway
Who casually sat in a doorway.
When the door squeezed her flat, 
She exclaimed, "What of that?"
That courageous young lady from Norway.

by Edward Lear (1812-1888) , under the pseudonym "Derry Down Derry", from A Book of Nonsense, published 1846

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Emma Lou Diemer (1927-) , "There was a young lady of Norway", published 1970 [unison voices, percussion, and piano], from Seven Limericks, no. ?
by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "The Hardy Norse-woman", op. 365, published 1960 [voice and piano], from Nonsense Rhymes, no. 13, published under the pseudonym Karel Drofnatski

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