Transcribed from the 1911 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
PHANTASMAGORIA
AND OTHER POEMS
BY
LEWIS CARROLL
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
ARTHUR B. FROST
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1911
Richard Clay and Sons, Limited
BRUNSWICK STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E.,
AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.
First published in 1869.
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 the friendly knee, intent to ask
The tale one loves to tell.
Rude scoffer of the seething outer strife,
Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright,
Deem, if thou wilt, such hours a waste of life,
Empty of all delight!