LEWIS CARROLL'S POETRY.
The centenary of the birth of Lewis Carroll has prompted the retrieving of light verse contributed by him to various journals. Tn one publication called " The Train" Dodgson wrote "Hiawatha's Photo graphing," one of the happiest of his parodies. Some of the lines are :• — First the Governor, the Father, He suggested velvet curtnins Looped nbout a massy pillar; . And the corner of a table. Of a rosewood dining-table. He would hole a scroll of something, Hold it firmly in his left hand: He wou'd keep his right hand buried (Like Napoleon) in his waistcoat; He would contemplate the distance With a look of pensive meaning, As of ducks that die in tempests Grand, heroic, was the notion; Yet the picture failed entirely; Failed, because he moved a little. Moved, because he couldn't help it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21153, 9 April 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)
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