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Название: The Poetry Collections of Lewis Carroll

Автор: Lewis Carroll

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      In occupations,

      And prolongation

      Of relaxation,

      And combinations

      Of recreations,

      And disputation

      On the state of the nation

      In adaptation

      To your station,

      By invitations

      To friends and relations,

      By evitation

      Of amputation,

      By permutation

      In conversation,

      And deep reflection

      You’ll avoid dejection.

      Learn well your grammar,

      And never stammer,

      Write well and neatly,

      And sing most sweetly,

      Be enterprising,

      Love early rising,

      Go walk of six miles,

      Have ready quick smiles,

      With lightsome laughter,

      Soft flowing after.

      Drink tea, not coffee;

      Never eat toffy.

      Eat bread with butter.

      Once more, don’t stutter.

      Don’t waste your money,

      Abstain from honey.

      Shut doors behind you,

      (Don’t slam them, mind you.)

      Drink beer, not porter.

      Don’t enter the water

      Till to swim you are able.

      Sit close to the table.

      Take care of a candle.

      Shut a door by the handle,

      Don’t push with your shoulder

      Until you are older.

      Lose not a button.

      Refuse cold mutton.

      Starve your canaries.

      Believe in fairies.

      If you are able,

      Don’t have a stable

      With any mangers.

      Be rude to strangers.

      Moral: Behave.

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      Methought I walked a dismal place

      Dim horrors all around;

      The air was thick with many a face,

      And black as night the ground.

      I saw a monster come with speed,

      Its face of grimmliest green,

      On human beings used to feed,

      Most dreadful to be seen.

      I could not speak, I could not fly,

      I fell down in that place,

      I saw the monster’s horrid eye

      Come leering in my face!

      Amidst my scarcely-stifled groans,

      Amidst my moanings deep,

      I heard a voice, “Wake! Mr. Jones,

      You’re screaming in your sleep!”

      (1850)

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      If such a thing had been my thought,

      I should have told you so before,

      But as I didn’t, then you ought

      To ask for such a thing no more,

      For to teach one who has been taught

      Is always thought an awful bore.

      Now to commence my argument,

      I shall premise an observation,

      On which the greatest kings have leant

      When striving to subdue a nation,

      And e’en the wretch who pays no rent

      By it can solve a hard equation.

      Its truth is such, the force of reason

      Can not avail to shake its power,

      Yet e’en the sun in summer season

      Doth not dispel so mild a shower

      As this, and he who sees it, sees on

      Beyond it to a sunny bower—

      No more, when ignorance is treason,

      Let wisdom’s brows be cold and sour.

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