Living
There was an old person of Bow
From More Nonsense
Living
There was an old person of Bow,
Whom nobody happened to know;
So they gave him some soap, and said coldly, "We hope
You will go back directly to Bow!"
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Bow.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/205/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Bow.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/205/.
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