Living
There was an Old Man of the Isles
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Man of the Isles,
Whose face was pervaded with smiles;
He sang "High dum diddle," and played on the fiddle,
That amiable Man of the Isles.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of the Isles.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/23/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of the Isles.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/23/.
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