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Title: Rhyme? And Reason?

Author: Lewis Carroll

Illustrator: Arthur B. Frost

Release Date: August 30, 2010 [EBook #33582]

Language: English

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RHYME? AND REASON?

[Illustration: "UPON A BATTLEMENT." _See_ p. 30.]

RHYME?
AND REASON?

BY LEWIS CARROLL

_WITH SIXTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS_
BY ARTHUR B. FROST

_AND NINE_
BY HENRY HOLIDAY

I have had nor rhyme nor reason

_PRICE SEVEN SHILLINGS_
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1883
[_All Rights Reserved_]

London:
R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR
BREAD STREET HILL, E.C.

Inscribed to a dear Child:
in memory of golden summer hours
and whispers of a summer sea.

* * * * *

Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task,
Eager she wields her spade: yet loves as well
Rest on a friendly knee, intent to ask
The tale one loves to tell.

Rude scoffer of the seething outer strife,
Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright,
Deem, if thou wilt, such hours a waste of life,
Empty of all delight!

Chat on, sweet Maid, and rescue from annoy
Hearts that by wiser talk are unbeguiled;
Ah, happy he who owns that tenderest joy,
The heart-love of a child!

Away, fond thoughts, and vex my soul no more!
Work claims my wakeful nights, my busy days
Albeit bright memories of that sunlit shore
Yet haunt my dreaming gaze!

[Of the following poems, ECHOES, A GAME OF FIVES, the last three of the
FOUR RIDDLES, and FAME'S PENNY-TRUMPET, are here published for the first
time. The others have all appeared before, as have also the illustrations
to THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK.]

CONTENTS.

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PHANTASMAGORIA, in Seven Cantos:--

I. The Trystyng 1

II. Hys Fy