Living
There was an old person of Down
From More Nonsense
Living
There was an old person of Down,
Whose face was adorned with a frown;
When he opened the door, for one minute or more,
He alarmed all the people of Down.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Down.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/154/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Down.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/154/.
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