Living
There was an Old Person of Sparta
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was an Old Person of Sparta,
Who had twenty-five sons and one "darter;"
He fed them on Snails, and weighed them in scales,
That wonderful Person of Sparta.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Person of Sparta.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/93/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was an Old Person of Sparta.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/93/.
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