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The Hunting of the Snark

By Carroll, Lewis

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Poetry

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Excerpt: Inscribed to a dear Child: // in memory of golden summer hours // and whispers of a summer sea. // Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task, // Eager she wields her spade: yet loves as well // Rest on a friendly knee, intent to ask // The tale he loves to tell. // Rude spirits of the seething outer strife, // Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright, // Deem, if you list, such hours a waste of life, // Empty of all delight! // Chat on, sweet Maid, and rescue from annoy // Hearts that by wiser talk are unbeguiled. // Ah, happy he who owns that tenderest joy, // The heart-love of a child! // Away, fond thoughts, and vex my soul no more! // Work claims my wakeful nights, my busy days- // Albeit bright memories of that sunlit shore // Yet haunt my dreaming gaze! // PREFACE: // If-and the thing is wildly possible-the charge of writing // nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but // instructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line // ``Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes'' // In view of this painful possibility, I will not (as I might) appeal // indignantly to my other writings as a proof that I am incapable of // such a deed: I will not (as I might) point to the strong moral // purpose of this poem itself, to the arithmetical principles so // cautiously inculcated in it, or to its noble teachings in Natural // History-I will take the more prosaic course of simply explaining // how it happened.

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Title: The Hunting of the Snark  
Author: Carroll, Lewis
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Language: English
Subject: Fiction, Poetry, Verse drama
Collection: Poetry Collection
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Publisher: World Public Library Association

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