Living
There was an old person of Putney
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Living
There was an old person of Putney,
Whose food was roast spiders and chutney,
Which he took with his tea, within sight of the sea,
That romantic old person of Putney.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Putney.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/159/.
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Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Putney.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/159/.
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