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You are old, Father William

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Type of text:  poem

Publication date:  not known

Author:  ‘CARROLL, Lewis’

Main language:  English

Notes:  The Pumphrey compilation reading titles this as 'Parody on 'You are old, Father William'', the parody being on Robert Southey's poem 'The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them' of 1799.  

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  – contained in Popular lantern readings: volume I, pp. 108-109