Living
There was an Old Man of Coblenz
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Man of Coblenz,
The length of whose legs was immense;
He went with one prance from Turkey to France,
That surprising Old Man of Coblenz.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of Coblenz.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/52/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of Coblenz.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/52/.
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