BESSIE'S SONG TO HER DOLL
by: Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
- ATILDA JANE,
you never look
- At any toy or picture-book.
- I show you pretty things in vain--
- You must be blind, Matilda Jane!
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- I ask you riddles, tell you tales,
- But all our conversation fails.
- You never answer me again--
- I fear you're dumb, Matilda Jane!
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- Matilda darling, when I call,
- You never seem to hear at all.
- I shout with all my might and main--
- But you're so deaf, Matilda Jane!
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- Matilda Jane, you needn't mind,
- For, though you're deaf and dumb and blind,
- There's some one loves you, it is plain--
- And that is me, Matilda Jane!
"Bessie's Song to her Doll"
is reprinted from The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems
and Verses. Lewis Carroll. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1903. |
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