All little children by the hand;

And led them laughing through the book,

Where Alice walks in Wonderland:

Ours is the task with Elfin dance

And song, to give to Childhood’s gaze

That Wonderland; and should it chance

To win a smile, be his the praise.


By the kind permission of Mr. Lewis Carroll the following poems are selected from his books, with some parodies and imitations of them.

THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER.