ベスビアスの老人は、ウィトルウィウス建築の研究家。
飲酒の一滴から引火して、蔵書が全焼。
なんてヘベレケなベスビアスの老人。
There was an Old Man of Vesuvius,
Who studied the works of Vitruvius;
When the flames burnt his book,
To drinking he took,
That morbid Old Man of Vesuvius.
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