Living
There was a young person in red
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Living
There was a young person in red,
Who carefully covered her head,
With a bonnet of leather, and three lines of feather,
Besides some long ribands of red.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was a young person in red.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/155/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was a young person in red.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/155/.
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