Living
There was an old man of El Hums
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Living
There was an old man of El Hums,
Who lived upon nothing but crumbs,
Which he picked off the ground, with the other birds round,
In the roads and the lanes of El Hums.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an old man of El Hums.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/184/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an old man of El Hums.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/184/.
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