Living
There was an Old Man of the Cape
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Man of the Cape,
Who possessed a large Barbary Ape;
Till the Ape, one dark night, set the house all alight,
Which burned that Old Man of the Cape.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of the Cape.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/86/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Man of the Cape.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/86/.
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