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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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fed: Nor are they well without the bread. Her visage scorched him ere she spoke : There are, she said, a kind of folkWho have no horror of a joke. Such wretches live: they take their shareOf common earth and common air:We come across them here and there : We grant them—there is no escape—A sort of semi-human shapeSuggestive of the man-like Ape. 92 THE THREE VOICES. In all such theories, said he,One fixed exception there must be:That is, the Present Company. Bafifled, she gave a wolfish bark : He, aiming blindly in the dark, With random shaft had pierced the mark. She felt that her defeat was plain,Yet madly strove with might and mainTo get the upper hand again. Fixing her eyes upon the beach, As though unconscious of his speech, She said * Each gives to more tlian each. He could not answer yea or nay :He faltered Gifts may pass away,Yet kne-w not what he meant to say. If that be so, she straight replied, Each heart with each doth coincide.V> hat boots it? For the world is wide.
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he faltered gifts may pass away 94 THE TIIKEE VOICES. The world is but a Thought, said he:The vast unfathomable seaIs but a Notion—unto me. And darkly fell her answer dread Upon his unresisting head, Like half a hundredweight of lead. The Good and Great must ever shunThat reckless and abandoned oneWho stoops to peipetrate a pun. The man that smokes—that reads the TimesThat goes to Christmas Pantomimes-Is capable oi any crimes! He felt it was his turn to speak, A.nd, with a shamed and crimson cheek, Moaned This is harder than Bezique ! But when she asked him Wherefore so? He felt his very whiskers glow, And frankly owned I do not know.

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