Living
There was an old man of Ancona
From More Nonsense
Living
There was an old man of Ancona,
Who found a small dog with no owner,
Which he took up and down all the streets of the town,
That anxious old man of Ancona.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an old man of Ancona.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/195/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an old man of Ancona.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/195/.
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