Living
There was an Old Man of the Hague
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Man of the Hague,
Whose ideas were excessively vague;
He built a balloon to examine the moon,
That deluded Old Man of the Hague.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of the Hague.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/102/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of the Hague.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/102/.
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