Living
There was an Old Man of Vesuvius
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Man of Vesuvius,
Who studied the works of Vitruvius;
When the flames burnt his book, to drinking he took,
That morbid Old Man of Vesuvius.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of Vesuvius.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/55/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of Vesuvius.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/55/.
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