Dreamland
When
midnight
mists
are
creeping,
And
all
the
land
is
sleeping,
Around
me
tread
the
mighty
dead,
And
slowly
pass
away.
Lo,
warriors,
saints,
and
sages,
From
out
the
vanished
ages,
With
solemn
pace
and
reverend
face
Appear
and
pass
away.
The
blaze
of
noonday
splendour,
The
twilight
soft
and
tender,
May
charm
the
eye:
yet
they
shall
die,
Shall
die
and
pass
away.
But
here,
in
Dreamland’s
centre,
No
spoiler’s
hand
may
enter,
These
visions
fair,
this
radiance
rare,
Shall
never
pass
away.
I
see
the
shadows
falling,
The
forms
of
old
recalling;
Around
me
tread
the
mighty
dead,
And
slowly
pass
away.
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll, (born January 27, 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, England—died January 14, 1898, Guildford, Surrey), English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist, especially remembered for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). His poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876) is nonsense literature of the highest order.