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Title: Rhyme? and reason?
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett), 1851-1928, illus Holiday, Henry, 1839-1927, illus
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Publisher: New York, Macmillan and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Stung by his cold and snaky eye, I roused myself at lengthTo say At least I do defyThe veriest sceptic to denyThat union is strength ! BYCKERMENT. Thats true enough, said he, yet stay— I listened in all meekness— Union is strength, I m bound to say;In fact, the thing s as clear as day ; But onions—are a weakness. 43 CANTO VI. As one who strives a hill to climb, Who never climbed before:Who finds it, in a little time,Grow every moment less sublime, And votes the thing a bore: Vet, having once begun to try, Dares not desert his quest,But, climbing, ever keeps his eyeOn one small hut against the sky, » Wherein he hopes to rest: Who climbs till nerve and force are spent,With many a puff and pant ; Who still, as rises the ascent. In language grows more violent. Although in breath more scant: DYSCOMFYTVRE. 45 Who, climbing, gains at length the placeThat crowns the upward track ; And, entering with unsteady pace, Receives a buffet in the face That lands him on his back :
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And feels himself, like one in sleep, Glide swiftly down again,A helpless weight, from steep to steep,Till, with a headlong giddy sweep. He drops upon the plain-So I, that had resolved to bring Conviction to a ghost,And found it quite a different thingFrom any human arguing. •^5^ Yet dared not quit my post 46 PHANTASMAGORIA. But, keeping still the end in view To which I hoped to come,I strove to prove the matter trueBy putting everything I knewInto an axiom : Commencing every single phraseWith therefore or because, I blindly reeled, a hundred ways, About the syllogistic maze, Unconscious where I was. Quoth he Thats regular clap-trap:Dont bluster any more. Now do be cool and take a nap ! Such a ridiculous old chapWas never seen before ! You re like a man I used to meet,Who got one day so furiousIn arguing, the simple heatScorched both his slippers off his feet !I said Thats very curious!

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