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Rhyme? And Reason? By: Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) |
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[Illustration: "UPON A BATTLEMENT." See p. 30.]
RHYME?
AND REASON?
BY LEWIS CARROLL
WITH SIXTY FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
BY ARTHUR B. FROST AND NINE
BY HENRY HOLIDAY
I have had nor rhyme nor reason
PRICE SEVEN SHILLINGS
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1883
[ All Rights Reserved ] London:
R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR
BREAD STREET HILL, E.C.
Inscribed to a dear Child:
in memory of golden summer hours
and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task,
Eager she wields her spade: yet loves as well
Rest on a friendly knee, intent to ask
The tale one loves to tell. Rude scoffer of the seething outer strife,
Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright,
Deem, if thou wilt, such hours a waste of life,
Empty of all delight! Chat on, sweet Maid, and rescue from annoy
Hearts that by wiser talk are unbeguiled;
Ah, happy he who owns that tenderest joy,
The heart love of a child! Away, fond thoughts, and vex my soul no more!
Work claims my wakeful nights, my busy days
Albeit bright memories of that sunlit shore
Yet haunt my dreaming gaze!
[Of the following poems, ECHOES, A GAME OF FIVES, the last three of the
FOUR RIDDLES, and FAME'S PENNY TRUMPET, are here published for the first
time. The others have all appeared before, as have also the illustrations
to THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK.]
CONTENTS.
PAGE PHANTASMAGORIA, in Seven Cantos: I. The Trystyng 1 II. Hys Fyve Rules 10 III. Scarmoges 18 IV. Hys Nouryture 26 V. Byckerment 34 VI. Dyscomfyture 44 VII. Sad Souvenaunce 53 ECHOES 58 A SEA DIRGE 59 Y{E} CARPETTE KNYGHTE 64 HIAWATHA'S PHOTOGRAPHING 66 MELANCHOLETTA 78 A VALENTINE 84 THE THREE VOICES: The First Voice 87 The Second Voice 98 The Third Voice 109 TÈMA CON VARIAZIÓNI 118 A GAME OF FIVES 120 POETA FIT, NON NASCITUR 123 THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK, an Agony in Eight Fits: I. THE LANDING 134 II. THE BELLMAN'S SPEECH 142 III. THE BAKER'S TALE 148 IV. THE HUNTING 153 V. THE BEAVER'S LESSON 159 VI. THE BARRISTER'S DREAM 167 VII. THE BANKER'S FATE 173 VIII. THE VANISHING 177 SIZE AND TEARS 181 ATALANTA IN CAMDEN TOWN 186 THE LANG COORTIN' 190 FOUR RIDDLES 202 FAME'S PENNY TRUMPET 211
PHANTASMAGORIA.
CANTO I. The Trystyng. One winter night, at half past nine,
Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,
I had come home, too late to dine,
And supper, with cigars and wine,
Was waiting in the study. There was a strangeness in the room,
And Something white and wavy
Was standing near me in the gloom
I took it for the carpet broom
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