Lewis Carroll

PHANTASMAGORIA AND OTHER POEMS
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A SEA DIRGE

 There are certain things - as, a spider, a ghost,
 The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three -
 That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most
 Is a thing they call the Sea.
 
 Pour some salt water over the floor -
 Ugly I’m sure you’ll allow it to be:
 Suppose it extended a mile or more,
 That’s very like the Sea.
 
 Beat a dog till it howls outright -
 Cruel, but all very well for a spree:
 Suppose that he did so day and night,
 That would be like the Sea.
 
 I had a vision of nursery-maids;
 Tens of thousands passed by me -
 All leading children with wooden spades,
 And this was by the Sea.
 
 Who invented those spades of wood?
 Who was it cut them out of the tree?
 None, I think, but an idiot could -
 Or one that loved the Sea.
 
 It is pleasant and dreamy, no doubt, to float
 With ‘thoughts as boundless, and souls as free’:
 But, suppose you are very unwell in the boat,
 How do you like the Sea?
 
 There is an insect (...)
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