Living
There was an old man in a tree
From More Nonsense
Living
There was an old man in a tree,
Whose whiskers were lovely to see;
But the birds of the air pluck'd them perfectly bare,
To make themselves nests in that tree.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an old man in a tree.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/209/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an old man in a tree.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/209/.
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