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.

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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 Fyve Rules 10

III. Scarmoges 18

IV. Hys Nouryture 26

V. Byckerment 34

VI. Dyscomfyture 44

VII. Sad Souvenaunce 53

ECHOES 58

A SEA DIRGE 59

Y{E} CARPETTE KNYGHTE 64

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: Rhyme? And Reason? by Lewis Carroll
• 2: He trembled when he caught my eye
• 3: The Spectres said the place was low
• 4: ' Then scratch the door or walls
• 5: Inspector Kobold came to you The little Ghost began
• 6: The next time you have toasted cheese
• 7: And when you've learned to squeak
• 8: Don't they consult the 'Victims
• 9: And squeeze them till they nearly choke
• 10: My proper name Is Tibbets Tibbets
• 11: And Tibbs will have the best of it
• 12: I woote Yt ys a mutton saddel
• 13: From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood
• 14: ' Hiawatha seemed to think so
• 15: My heart is wasted with my woe
• 16: Illustration UNERRINGLY SHE PINNED IT DOWN
• 17: Moaned This is harder than Bezique
• 18: For Notion hath its source in Thought
• 19: When summer suns have dried the rill
• 20: Illustration HE GROANED AGHAST 'Twere hard
• 21: Illustration Five little girls
• 22: Illustration How shall I be a poet
• 23: No one shall speak to the Man at the Helm
• 24: How to pronounce slithy toves
• 25: The good Bellman engaged him at once
• 26: The Bellman perceived that their spirits were low
• 27: Although common Snarks do no manner of harm
• 28: BEWARE OF THE DAY But if ever I meet with a Boojum
• 29: Which the Bellman declared was all stuff
• 30: Illustration THE BEAVER BROUGHT PAPER
• 31: Then the Snark pronounced sentence
• 32: A Bandersnatch swiftly drew nigh And grabbed at the Banker
• 33: He has certainly found a Snark
• 34: Illustration ATALANTA IN CAMDEN TOWN
• 35: Then up and spake the popinjay
• 36: For wha should tae the parlour gae
• 37: The three stanzas respectively describe My First
• 38: Blow your trumpets till they crack
• 39: With Fifty Illustrations by TENNIEL