Living
There was an old Person of Cromer
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an old Person of Cromer,
Who stood on one leg to read Homer;
When he found he grew stiff, he jumped over the cliff,
Which concluded that Person of Cromer.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an old Person of Cromer.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/101/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an old Person of Cromer.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/101/.
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