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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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ilence dead, but she To muse a little space did seem, Then, like the echo of a dream, Harped back upon her threadbare theme. StiU an attentive ear he lent But could not fathom what she meant: She was not deep, nor eloquent. He marked the ripple on the sand:The even swaying of her handWas all that he could understand. p 106 THE 7HREE VOICES, He saw in dreams a drawing-room,Where thirteen wretches sat in gloom,Waiting—he thought he knew for whom : He saw them drooping here and there,Each feebly huddled on a chair,In attitudes of blank despair: Oysters were not more mute than they,For all their brains were pumped away.And they had nothing more to say— Save one, who groaned Three hours are gone!Who shrieked Well wait no longer, John!Tell them to set the dinner on ! The vision passed : the ghosts were fled : He saw once more that woman dread : ■ He heard once more the words she said. He left her, and he turned aside :He sat and watched the coming tideAcross the shores so newly dried.
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HE SAT AND WATCHED THE COMING TIDS io8 THE THREE VOICES. He wondered at the waters clear,The breeze that whispered in his earyThe billows heaving far and near, And why he had so long preferred To hang upon her every word : **In truth, he said, it was absurd. Oiiiil!ii!l^i;iWS-

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