The aquiline snub

There was an old man with a nose
Who said, "If you choose to suppose
That my nose is too long,
you are certainly wrong,"
That remarkable man with a nose.

by Edward Lear (1812-1888) , no title, from A Book of Nonsense, published 1861

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by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "The aquiline snub", op. 375, published 1960 [voice and piano], from Nonsense Rhymes, no. 9, published under the pseudonym Karel Drofnatski

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