E-Books: ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
BY
LEWIS CARROLL
WITH FORTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN TENNIEL
VOLUME ONE PUBLISHING
Chicago, Illinois
1998
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 ?
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 is next time!”
The happy voices cry.
BY
LEWIS CARROLL
WITH FORTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN TENNIEL
VOLUME ONE PUBLISHING
Chicago, Illinois
1998
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 ?
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 is next time!”
The happy voices cry.
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