Echoes
Lady
Clara
Vere
de
Vere
Was
eight
years
old,
she
said:
Every
ringlet,
lightly
shaken,
ran
itself
in
golden
thread.
She
took
her
little
porringer:
Of
me
she
shall
not
win
renown:
For
the
baseness
of
its
nature
shall
have
strength
to
drag
her
down.
“Sisters
and
brothers,
little
Maid?
There
stands
the
Inspector
at
thy
door:
Like
a
dog,
he
hunts
for
boys
who
know
not
two
and
two
are
four.”
“Kind
words
are
more
than
coronets,”
She
said,
and
wondering
looked
at
me:
“It
is
the
dead
unhappy
night,
and
I
must
hurry
home
to
tea.”
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.