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Thread #71640   Message #1227563
Posted By: GUEST,Barrie Roberts
17-Jul-04 - 07:21 AM
Thread Name: Unlikely first lines
Subject: RE: Unlikely first lines
How about Bill Caddick's 'The Writing of Tipperary', which begins:

King Edward the Seventh, who some called the Peacemaker, died in 19 and 10,
He was buried at Windsor, and in the procession walked the finest and greatest of men'.