Living
There was a Young Lady of Dorking
From A Book of Nonsense
Living
There was a Young Lady of Dorking,
Who bought a large bonnet for walking;
But its color and size so bedazzled her eyes,
That she very soon went back to Dorking.
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MLA
Lear, Edward. “There was a Young Lady of Dorking.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/99/.
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Lear, Edward. “There was a Young Lady of Dorking.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lear/99/.
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