Living
There was an old man of Hong Kong
From More Nonsense
Living
There was an old man of Hong Kong,
Who never did anything wrong;
He lay on his back, with his head in a sack,
That innocuous old man of Hong Kong.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an old man of Hong Kong.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/148/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an old man of Hong Kong.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/148/.
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