In his new book Liberating the Limerick, EPPC Senior Scholar (and founding President) Ernest Lefever collects, and organizes by theme, 230 limericks that "reflect facets of truth and virtue wrapped in the garments of irony and caricature."

Here is a small sample of the clever and amusing limericks that Mr. Lefever collected:

God's plan made a hopeful beginning
But man spoiled his chances by sinning
We trust that the story
Will end in God's glory;
But at present, the other side's winning.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

St. Augustine thought he had found
The sin by which mankind is bound:
"It was not," so said he,
"The fruit on the tree,
But the lust of the pair on the ground."
--Bob L. Staples

The bustard's an exquisite fowl
With minimal reason to growl:
He escapes what would be
Illegitimacy
By the grace of a fortunate vowel.
--George Vaill

Buy the Book:

In addition to being available from the publisher, Hamilton Books, Liberating the Limerick can be obtained at a discount price of $15 directly from Mr. Lefever. For further information, contact him at Elefever@aol.com.

Praise for Liberating the Limerick:

"This nifty little book is proof positive that English, the rollicking language of laughter, is one of the Great Wonders of the World."
-- George Weigel

"A tireless man named Lefever
With limericks did beaver and beaver
Producing a tome
You'll want in your home
It's delicious and deucedly cleever."
-- Christopher Buckley

Reviews

--Because of the sheer fun and smarts of Mr. Lefever's selections, readers will return to the volume again and again. And part of its undeniable charm is that, taken as a whole, it makes a persuasive argument for the power of restraint. (Washington Times, June 11, 2006.)