Songs

The aquiline snub

by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford From Nonsense Rhymes

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Text

The aquiline snub
English source: Edward Lear

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.

Composer

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor. Among his students were Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

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