Living
There was a Young Person of Smyrna
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was a Young Person of Smyrna,
Whose Grandmother threatened to burn her;
But she seized on the Cat, and said, "Granny, burn that!
You incongruous Old Woman of Smyrna!"
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was a Young Person of Smyrna.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/2/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was a Young Person of Smyrna.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/2/.
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