A Boat Beneath A Sunny Sky
A
Boat
beneath
a
sunny
sky,
Lingering
onward
dreamily
In
an
evening
of
July
—
Children
three
that
nestle
near,
Eager
eye
and
willing
ear,
Pleased
a
simple
tale
to
hear
—
Long
has
paled
that
sunny
sky:
Echoes
fade
and
memories
die:
Autumn
frosts
have
slain
July.
Still
she
haunts
me,
phantomwise,
Alice
moving
under
skies
Never
seen
by
waking
eyes.
Children
yet,
the
tale
to
hear,
Eager
eye
and
willing
ear,
Lovingly
shall
nestle
near.
In
a
Wonderland
they
lie,
Dreaming
as
the
days
go
by,
Dreaming
as
the
summers
die:
Ever
drifting
down
the
stream
—
Lingering
in
the
golden
dream
—
Life,
what
is
it
but
a
dream?
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.