Living
There was an Old Lady of Prague
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Lady of Prague,
Whose language was horribly vague;
When they said, "Are these caps?" she answered, "Perhaps!"
That oracular Lady of Prague.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Lady of Prague.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/91/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Lady of Prague.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/91/.
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