By Lewis Carroll
At the present time, Lewis Carroll is healthier remembered as a author of stripling fiction accountable for such undying works as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and during the Looking-Glass. in spite of the fact that, Carroll was once additionally a poet who wove darkish visions and supernatural topics into his vast physique of labor. a lot of the verse amassed in Phantasmagoria and different Poems has a supernatural or visionary subject matter. A must-read for lovers of Victorian ghost tales.
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He a bewildered solution gave, Drowned within the sullen moaning wave, misplaced within the echoes of the cave. He replied her he knew now not what: Like shaft from bow at random shot, He spoke, yet she appeared no longer. She waited no longer for his answer, yet with a downward leaden eye Went on as though he weren't by means of Sound argument and grave defence, unusual questions raised on "Why? " and "Whence? " And wildly tangled facts. while he, with racked and whirling mind, Feebly implored her to give an explanation for, She easily stated all of it back. Wrenched with an pain excessive, He spake, neglecting Sound and feel, And careless of all end result: "Mind—I believe—is Essence—Ent - Abstract—that is—an coincidence - Which we—that is to say—I meant—" while, with speedy breath and cheeks all flushed, At size his speech was once just a little hushed, She checked out him, and he was once overwhelmed. It wanted no longer her calm answer: She mounted him with a stony eye, And he might neither struggle nor fly. whereas she dissected, notice by means of note, His speech, part guessed at and part heard, As may perhaps a cat a bit fowl. Then, having fully overthrown His perspectives, and stripped them to the bone, Proceeded to spread her personal. "Shall guy be guy? And shall he leave out of different recommendations no inspiration yet this, Harmonious dews of sober bliss? "What boots it? Shall his fevered eye via towering nothingness descry The grisly phantom hurry by way of? "And listen dumb shrieks that fill the air; See mouths that gape, and eyes that stare And redden within the dusky glare? "The meadows respiring amber gentle, The darkness toppling from the peak, The feathery teach of granite evening? "Shall he, grown grey between his friends, in the course of the thick curtain of his tears seize glimpses of his past years, "And listen the sounds he knew of yore, outdated shufflings at the sanded ground, outdated knuckles tapping on the door? "Yet nonetheless earlier than him as he flies One pallid shape shall ever upward push, And, bodying forth in glassy eyes "The imaginative and prescient of a vanished stable, Low peering throughout the tangled wooden, Shall freeze the present of his blood. " nonetheless from every one truth, with ability uncouth And savage rapture, like a teeth She wrenched a few sluggish reluctant fact. until, like a silent water-mill, while summer season suns have dried the rill, She reached a whole cease, and was once nonetheless. useless calm succeeded to the fuss, As whilst the loaded omnibus Has reached the railway terminus: whilst, for the tumult of the road, Is heard the engine's stifled beat, The velvet tread of porters' ft. With look that ever sought the floor, She moved her lips with no sound, and each from time to time she frowned. He gazed upon the slumbering sea, And joyed in its tranquillity, And in that silence lifeless, yet she To muse a bit area did appear, Then, just like the echo of a dream, Harked again upon her threadbare subject matter. nonetheless an attentive ear he lent yet couldn't fathom what she intended: She was once no longer deep, nor eloquent. He marked the ripple at the sand: The even swaying of her hand was once all that he may perhaps comprehend. He observed in goals a drawing-room, the place 13 wretches sat in gloom, Waiting—he proposal he knew for whom: He observed them drooping right here and there, each one feebly huddled on a chair, In attitudes of clean depression: Oysters weren't extra mute than they, For all their brains have been pumped away, they usually had not anything extra to claim - shop one, who groaned "Three hours are long past!