Living
There was an Old Man of the Wrekin
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Man of the Wrekin,
Whose shoes made a horrible creaking;
But they said, "Tell us whether your shoes are of leather,
Or of what, you Old Man of the Wrekin?"
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of the Wrekin.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/29/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of the Wrekin.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/29/.
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