There was an Old Man on whose nose

There was an Old Man on whose nose

There was an Old Man on whose nose
Most birds of the air could repose;
But they all flew away at the closing of day,
Which relieved that Old Man and his nose.

A Book of Nonsense (1846)
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On a card my wife received was the cartoon and only the first two lines.  I didn't know they were the start of a limerick, so I made up my own ending:

There was an old man on whose nose

Most birds of the air could repose

And that would include those exotic and rude

But ostriches not, I suppose.