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Lewis Carroll
The Poetry Collections of Lewis Carroll
Early Verse + Puzzles from Wonderland + Prologues to Plays + Rhyme? And Reason? + College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel + Acrostics, Inscriptions and Other Verses + Three Sunsets and Other Poems + The Hunting of the Snark
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Table of Contents
College Rhymes and Notes by an Oxford Chiel
Acrostics, Inscriptions and Other Verses
The Hunting of the Snark
Early Verse
Contents
She’s All my Fancy Painted Him
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humour
My Fairy
I have a fairy by my side
Which says I must not sleep,
When once in pain I loudly cried
It said “You must not weep.”
If, full of mirth, I smile and grin,
It says “You must not laugh;”
When once I wished to drink some gin
It said “You must not quaff.”
When once a meal I wished to taste
It said “You must not bite;”
When to the wars I went in haste
It said “You must not fight.”
“What may I do?” at length I cried,
Tired of the painful task.
The fairy quietly replied,
And said “You must not ask.”
Moral: “You mustn’t.”
(1845)
Punctuality
Man naturally loves delay,
And to procrastinate;
Business put off from day to day
Is always done too late.
Let every hour be in its place
Firm fixed, nor loosely shift, And well enjoy the vacant space,
As though a birthday gift.
And when the hour arrives, be there, Where’er that “there” may be;
Uncleanly hands or ruffled hair
Let no one ever see.
If dinner at “half-past” be placed,
At “half-past” then be dressed.
If at a “quarter-past” make haste
To be down