Living
There was an Old Man who said, "Well!
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Man who said, "Well!
Will nobody answer this bell?
I have pulled day and night, till my hair has grown white,
But nobody answers this bell!"
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man who said, "Well!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/104/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man who said, "Well!” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/104/.
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