Living
There was an Old Man of Corfu
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Man of Corfu,
Who never knew what he should do;
So he rushed up and down, till the sun made him brown,
That bewildered Old Man of Corfu.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of Corfu.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/54/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of Corfu.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/54/.
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