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Title: Rhyme? and reason?
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett), 1851-1928 Holiday, Henry, 1839-1927
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Publisher: London : Macmillan and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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wails— Reward us, ere we think or write ! Without your Gold mere Knowledge failsTo sate the swinish appetite 1 And, where great Plato paced serene,Or Newton paused with wistful eye, Rush to the chace with hoofs uncleanAnd Babel-clamour of the sty! 2 1 2 FAME S PENNY- TRUMPET. Be yours the pay: be theirs the praise:We will not rob them of their due, Nor vex the ghosts of other daysBy naming them along with you. They sought and found undying fame:They toiled not for reward nor thanks : Their cheeks are hot with honest shameFor you, the modern mountebanks ! Who preach of Justice—plead with tearsThat Love and Mercy should abound— While marking with complacent earsThe moaning of some tortured hound: Who prate of Wisdom—nay, forbear,Lest Wisdom turn on you in wrath*, Trampling, with heel that will not spare,The vermin that beset her path ! Go, throng each others drawing-rooms, Ye idols of a petty clique :Strut your brief hour in borrowed plumes, And make your penny-trumpets squeak:
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M^5^ vt\ J T GO, THKONG EACH OTHERS DRAWING-ROOMS 2 14 FA ME S PENN y- TR UMPE T. Deck your dull talk with pilfered shredsOf learning from a nobler time, And oil each others little heads With mutual Flatterys golden slime : And when the topmost height ye gain,And stand in Glorys ether clear, And grasp the prize of all your pain—So many hundred pounds a year— Then let Fames banner be unfurled ! Sing Paeans for a victory won !Ye tapers, that would light the world, And cast a shadow on the Sun— Who still shall pour His rays sublime,One crystal flood, from East to West, When ye have burned your little timeAnd feebly flickered into rest! THE END. (turn over. WORKS BY LEWIS CARROLL. ALICES ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. With Forty-two Illustrations by Tenniel. Crown 8vo, cloth,gilt edges, price 6s. Seventy-first Thousand. TRANSLATIONS OF THE SAME—into FrenchJ by Henri Bue—into German, by Antonie Zimmermann—andinto Italian, by T. Pietrocola Rossetti—with TennielsIllustrations. Crown

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