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1877
MADRIGAL
by Lewis Carroll
MADRIGAL
(To Miss May Forshall.) -
HE shouts amain, he shouts again,
(Her brother, fierce, as bluff King Hal),
"I tell you flat, I shall do that!"
She softly whispers "'May' for 'shall'!" -
He wistful sighed one eventide
(Her friend, that made this Madrigal),
"And shall I kiss you, pretty Miss!"
Smiling she answered "'May' for 'shall'!" -
With eager eyes my reader cries,
"Your friend must be indeed a val-
-uable child, so sweet, so mild!
What do you call her?" "May For shall." -
Dec. 24, 1877.
THE END