Living
There was an old person of Shields
From More Nonsense
Living
There was an old person of Shields,
Who frequented the vallies and fields;
All the mice and the cats, and the snakes and the rats,
Followed after that person of Shields.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Shields.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/136/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Shields.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/136/.
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