Living
There was an Old Man who said, "Hush!
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Man who said, "Hush!
I perceive a young bird in this bush!"
When they said, "Is it small?" he replied, "Not at all;
It is four times as big as the bush!"
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man who said, "Hush!” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/67/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man who said, "Hush!” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/67/.
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