Living
There was a Young Lady of Portugal
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was a Young Lady of Portugal,
Whose ideas were excessively nautical;
She climbed up a tree to examine the sea,
But declared she would never leave Portugal.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was a Young Lady of Portugal.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/12/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was a Young Lady of Portugal.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/12/.
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