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With gently smiling jaws - Lewis Carroll "The Crocodile"

Blow your trumpets till they crack - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"

Where great Plato paced serene - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"

Nor vex the ghosts of other days - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"

Idols of a petty clique - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"

With pilfered shreds of learning - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"

A tooth-ache in each spoonful - Lewis Carroll "Four Riddles I"

Like sweet bells jangled - Lewis Carroll "Four Riddles II"

To depths of frantic folly - Lewis Carroll "Four Riddles IV"

A den of dark and deadly mazes - Lewis Carroll "Four Riddles IV"

As of dogs that howl in concert - Lewis Carroll "Hiawatha's Photographing"

As of cats that wail in chorus - Lewis Carroll "Hiawatha's Photographing"

Brought to arrange their disputes - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Would joke with hyaenas - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Navigation was always a difficult art - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

With a flavour of Will-o-the wisp - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Frequently breakfasts at five o'clock tea - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Set him conundrums to guess - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

You may seek it with thimbles - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Each working the grindstone in turn - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Boil it in sawdust - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Salt it in glue - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Soothed her secret sorrow - Lewis Carroll "Melancholetta"

Such cheerful words to borrow - Lewis Carroll "Melancholetta"

In solemn silence swallowed - Lewis Carroll "Melancholetta"

The dark silence of an ancient room - Lewis Carroll "The Path of Roses"

Upon the sleeping echoes of the night - Lewis Carroll "The Path of Roses"

And hide the thorns in flowers - Lewis Carroll "The Path of Roses"

Plunged headlong in that living sea - Lewis Carroll "The Path of Roses"

In the darkest path of man's despair - Lewis Carroll "The Path of Roses"

With eyes of wrath and wonder - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto II. Hys Fyve Rules"

Till nerve and force are spent - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto VI. Dyscomfyture"

That crowns the upward track - Lewis Carroll "Phantasmagoria: Canto VI. Dyscomfyture"

Just as they chance to fall - Lewis Carroll "Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur"

All very well for a spree - Lewis Carroll "A Sea Dirge"

Coffee with sand for dregs - Lewis Carroll "A Sea Dirge"

High prices profit those who sell - Lewis Carroll "Tema con Variazioni"

Stood still in sudden trance - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"

Stars were peering overhead - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"

Slow sinking through the tearful mist - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"

Through the dark chambers of his soul - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"

To invent new luxuries of agony - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"

Half in misery's aching void - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"

Make havoc of our life and powers - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"

For peace that never shall be ours - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"

In trustful patience for our fate - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"

And hope departed with the day - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"

And silence quickened into sound - Lewis Carroll "Three Sunsets"

Find a solace in the soup - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The First Voice"

Lost in the echoes of the cave - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Second Voice"

Wildly tangled evidence - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Second Voice"

Darkness toppling from the height - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Second Voice"

The feathery train of granite Night - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Second Voice"

Tears kindle not the doubtful spark - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Third Voice"

The jargon of the howling main - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Third Voice"

Soundless as ghost's intended tread - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Third Voice"

Pursue me like a sleepless hound - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Third Voice"

With crimson-dashed and eager jaws - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Third Voice"

Left half a life behind - Lewis Carroll "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"

But bitter memory will not die - Lewis Carroll "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"

In the sigh of that complaining wind - Lewis Carroll "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"

Yet time would fail to utter all - Lewis Carroll "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"

The fevered brain might slumber cool - Lewis Carroll "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"

When weary hands forget their power - Lewis Carroll "The Valley of the Shadow of Death"


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