Living
There was an old person of Bray
From More Nonsense
Living
There was an old person of Bray,
Who sang through the whole of the day
To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs,
That valuable person of Bray.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Bray.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/203/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Bray.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/203/.
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