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FALICES ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
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ALICE’S ADVENTURES
IN WONDERLAND BY LEWIS CARROLL WITH EIGHT COLOURED AND 42 OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS # BY W. H. WALKER * ¢ #
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LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD
First Published in 1907
Reprinted . . . ZQIO Reprinted . . . 1922 Reprinted . | . 1923 Reprinted . . . 1928
MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY JARROLD AND SONS LTD, NORWICH
ALL in the golden afternoon
Full leisurely we glide ; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence
Our wanderings to guide.
Ah, cruel Three! In such an hour, Beneath such dreamy weather,
To beg a tale of breath too weak To stir the tiniest feather!
Yet what can one poor voice avail
Against three tongues together #
ALICE'S ADVENTURES
Imperious Prima flashes forth Her edict “to begin it ”— In gentler tone Secunda hopes “There will be nonsense in it !”— While Tertia interrupts the tale
Not more than once a minute.
Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue
The dream-child moving through a land Of wonders wild and new,
In friendly chat with bird or beast--- And half believe it true.
And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, “The rest next time”—“It 7s next time!”
The happy voices cry.
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IN WONDERLAND
Thus grew the tale of Wonderland: Thus slowly, one by one,
Its quaint events were hammered out, And now the tale is done,
And home we steer, a merry crew,
Beneath the setting sun.
Alice! a childish story take, And with the gentle hand
Lay it where Childhood’s dreams are twined In Memory’s mystic band,
Like pilgrim’s withered wreath of flowers Plucked in a far-off land,
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