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Buy more than 2,000 books on a single CD-ROM for only $19.99. That's less then a penny per book! Click here for more information.![]() Read, write, or comment on essays about Double Acrostic: I sing a place Search for books Search essays | 1869 DOUBLE ACROSTIC: I SING A PLACE WHEREIN AGREE by Lewis Carroll DOUBLE ACROSTIC: I SING A PLACE WHEREIN AGREE - (To Miss E. M. Argles.) - I SING a place wherein agree All things on land that fairest be, All that is sweetest of the sea. - Nor can I break the silken knot That binds my memory to the spot And friends too dear to be forgot. - . . . . . - On rocky brow we loved to stand And watch in silence, hand in hand, - The shadows veiling sea and land. B luf F - Then dropped the breeze; no vessel passed: So silent stood each taper mast, You would have deemed it chained and fast. A ncho R - Above the blue and fleecy sky: Below, the waves that quivering lie, Like crisped curls of greenery. B roccol I - "A sail!" resounds from every lip. Mizen, no, square-sail- ah, you trip! Edith, it cannot be a ship! B arqu E - So home again from sea and beach, One nameless feeling thrilling each. A sense of beauty, passing speech. A ppreciatio N - Let lens and tripod be unslung! "Dolly!" 's the word on every tongue; Dolly must sit, for she is young! C hil D - Photography shall change her face, Distort it with uncouth grimace- Make her bloodthirsty, fierce, and base. O diou S - I end my song while scarce begun; For I should want, ere all was done, Four weeks to tell the tale of one: M ont H - And I should need as large a hand, To paint a scene so wild and grand, As he who traversed Egypt's land. B elzon I - What say you, Edith? Will it suit ye? Reject it, if it fails in beauty: You know your literary duty! E ditorshi P - On the rail between Torquay and Guildford, Sep. 28, 1869. - THE END |
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