1876

ACROSTIC: MAIDENS! IF YOU LOVE THE TALE

by Lewis Carroll

ACROSTIC: MAIDENS! IF YOU LOVE THE TALE -

(To the Misses Drury.) -

"MAIDENS! if you love the tale,

If you love the Snark,

Need I urge you, spread the sail,

Now, while freshly blows the gale,

In your ocean-barque! -

"English Maidens love renown,

Enterprise, and fuss!"

Laughingly those Maidens frown;

Laughingly, with eyes cast down;

And they answer thus: -

"English Maidens fear to roam.

Much we dread the dark;

Much we dread what ills might come,

If we left our English home,

Even for a Snark!" -

Apr. 6, 1876. - -