Living
There was an Old Person of Ewell
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Person of Ewell,
Who chiefly subsisted on gruel;
But to make it more nice, he inserted some Mice,
Which refreshed that Old Person of Ewell.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Person of Ewell.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/107/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Person of Ewell.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/107/.
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