Living
There was an Old Man of Whitehaven
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Man of Whitehaven,
Who danced a quadrille with a Raven;
But they said, "It's absurd to encourage this bird!"
So they smashed that Old Man of Whitehaven.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of Whitehaven.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/83/.
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Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of Whitehaven.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/83/.
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