Living
There was an Old Man of Marseilles
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Man of Marseilles,
Whose daughters wore bottle-green veils:
They caught several Fish, which they put in a dish,
And sent to their Pa at Marseilles.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of Marseilles.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/28/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of Marseilles.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/28/.
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