Living
There was an old person of Rye
From More Nonsense
Living
There was an old person of Rye,
Who went up to town on a fly;
But they said, "If you cough, you are safe to fall off!
You abstemious old person of Rye!"
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Rye.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/206/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Rye.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/206/.
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