Lewis Carroll

PHANTASMAGORIA AND OTHER POEMS
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MELANCHOLETTA

 With saddest music all day long
 She soothed her secret sorrow:
 At night she sighed “I fear ’twas wrong
 Such cheerful words to borrow.
 Dearest, a sweeter, sadder song
 I’ll sing to thee to-morrow.”
 
 I thanked her, but I could not say
 That I was glad to hear it:
 I left the house at break of day,
 And did not venture near it
 Till time, I hoped, had worn away
 Her grief, for nought could cheer it!
 
 My dismal sister!  Couldst thou know
 The wretched home thou keepest!
 Thy brother, drowned in daily woe,
 Is thankful when thou sleepest;
 For if I laugh, however low,
 When thou’rt awake, thou weepest!
 
 I took my sister t’other day
 (Excuse the slang expression)
 To Sadler’s Wells to see the play
 In hopes the new impression
 Might in her thoughts, from grave to gay
 Effect some slight digression.
 
 I asked three gay young dogs from town
 To join us in our folly,
 Whose mirth, I thought, might serve to drown
 My sister’s melancholy:
 The lively Jones, the sportive Brown,
 And Robinson the jolly.
 
 The maid announced the meal in tones
 That I myself had taught her,
 Meant to allay my sister’s moans
 Like oil on troubled water:
 I rushed to Jones, the lively Jones,
 And begged him to escort her.
 
 Vainly he strove, with ready wit,
 To joke about the weather -
 To ventilate the last ‘on dit’ -
 To quote the price of leather -
 She groaned “Here I and Sorrow sit:
 Let us lament together!”
 
 I urged (...)
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