Living
There was an Old Man of the West
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Man of the West,
Who never could get any rest;
So they set him to spin on his nose and his chin,
Which cured that Old Man of the West.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of the West.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/77/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of the West.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/77/.
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