Living
There was an Old Person of Burton
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Person of Burton,
Whose answers were rather uncertain;
When they said, "How d' ye do?" he replied, "Who are you?"
That distressing Old Person of Burton.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Person of Burton.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/87/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Person of Burton.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/87/.
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