Living
There was a Young Person of Crete
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was a Young Person of Crete,
Whose toilette was far from complete;
She dressed in a sack spickle-speckled with black,
That ombliferous Person of Crete.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was a Young Person of Crete.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/97/.
Chicago
Lear, Edward. “There was a Young Person of Crete.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/97/.
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