Living
There was an Old Lady of Chertsey
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Lady of Chertsey,
Who made a remarkable curtsey;
She twirled round and round, till she sank underground,
Which distressed all the people of Chertsey.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Lady of Chertsey.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/9/.
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Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Lady of Chertsey.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/9/.
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