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Название: The Poetry Collections of Lewis Carroll

Автор: Lewis Carroll

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      Beneath the waters of the sea

      Are lobsters thick as thick can be—

      They love to dance with you and me,

      My own, my gentle Salmon!

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      Salmon, come up! Salmon, go down!

      Salmon, come twist your tail around!

      Of all the fishes of the sea

      There’s none so good as Salmon!

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      [It is always interesting to ascertain the sources from which our great poets obtained their ideas: this motive has dictated the publication of the following: painful as its appearance must be to the admirers of Wordsworth and his poem of “Resolution and Independence.”]

      I met an aged, aged man

      Upon the lonely moor:

      I knew I was a gentleman,

      And he was but a boor.

      So I stopped and roughly questioned him,

      “Come, tell me how you live!”

      But his words impressed my ear no more

      Than if it were a sieve.

      He said, “I look for soap-bubbles,

      That lie among the wheat,

      And bake them into mutton-pies,

      And sell them in the street.

      I sell them unto men,” he said,

      “Who sail on stormy seas;

      And that’s the way I get my bread—

      A trifle, if you please.”

      But I was thinking of a way

      To multiply by ten,

      And always, in the answer, get

      The question back again.

      I did not hear a word he said,

      But kicked that old man calm,

      And said, “Come, tell me how you live!”

      And pinched him in the arm.

      His accents mild took up the tale:

      He said, “I go my ways,

      And when I find a mountain-rill,

      I set it in a blaze.

      And thence they make a stuff they call

      Rowland’s Macassar Oil;

      But fourpence-halfpenny is all

      They give me for my toil.”

      But I was thinking of a plan

      To paint one’s gaiters green,

      So much the colour of the grass

      That they could ne’er be seen.

      I gave his ear a sudden box,

      And questioned him again,

      And tweaked his grey and reverend locks,

      And put him into pain.

      He said, “I hunt for haddocks’ eyes

      Among the heather bright,

      And work them into waistcoat-buttons

      In the silent night.

      And these I do not sell for gold,

      Or coin of silver-mine,

      But for a copper-halfpenny,

      And that will purchase nine.

      “I sometimes dig for buttered rolls,

      Or set limed twigs for crabs;

      I sometimes search the flowery knolls

      For wheels of hansom cabs.

      And that’s the way” (he gave a wink)

      “I get my living here,

      And very gladly will I drink

      Your Honour’s health in beer.”

      I heard him then, for I had just

      Completed my design

      To keep the Menai bridge from rust

      By boiling it in wine.

      I duly thanked him, ere I went,

      For all his stories queer,

      But chiefly for his kind intent

      To drink my health in beer.

      And now if e’er by chance I put

      My fingers into glue,

      Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot

      Into a left-hand shoe;

      Or if a statement I aver

      Of which I am not sure,

      I think of that strange wanderer

      Upon the lonely moor.

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       (This frolicsome verse was written for a medley of twenty-two tunes that ranged from “The Captain and His Whiskers” СКАЧАТЬ