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Queens - The Owl and the Pussy Cat

"The Owl and the Pussycat" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1871 in his book Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets.

Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term runcible spoon was coined for the poem.