Living
There Was a Rare Boy
From Rhymes and Jingles (1875)
Living
There was a rare boy who fell ill,
And begged them to give him a pill;
"For my kind parents' sake,
The dose I will take,"
Said this rare little boy who fell ill.
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MLA
Dodge, Mary Mapes. “There Was a Rare Boy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/142/.
Chicago
Dodge, Mary Mapes. “There Was a Rare Boy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dodge_mm/142/.
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