Living
There was an Old Person of Bangor
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Person of Bangor,
Whose face was distorted with anger;
He tore off his boots, and subsisted on roots,
That borascible Person of Bangor.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Person of Bangor.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/70/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Person of Bangor.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/70/.
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