Living
There was an old person of Dundalk
From More Nonsense
Living
There was an old person of Dundalk,
Who tried to teach fishes to walk;
When they tumbled down dead, he grew weary, and said,
"I had better go back to Dundalk!"
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Dundalk.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/217/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an old person of Dundalk.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/217/.
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