I have a fairy by my side
Which says I must not sleep,
When once in pain I loudly cried
It said "You must not weep"
If, full of mirth, I smile and grin,
It says "You must not laugh"
When once I wished to drink some gin
It said "You must not quaff".
When once a meal I wished to taste
It said "You must not bite"
When to the wars I went in haste
It said "You must not fight".
"What may I do?" at length I cried,
Tired of the painful task.
The fairy quietly replied,
And said "You must not ask".
Moral: "You mustn't."
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Love it
this poem is probley one of the coolest poems i have ever read my girlfriend is just crazy about faerys and all of there nature and so ill probley send this to her she will just love it and supriseingly a guy wrote this not to many guys would be manly enough to write about faerys -
Not one of my favorites of his. I find some of the non-sensical, trippy stuff fun from time to time, but this lacked the whimsy of his other poems. Too preachy, and the flow broke for me a number of times. Also the repetition here made the poem feel canned and predictable.
Tired of the painful task.
that struck me as a tin ear line that completely broke the poem's rhythm (which lacked imagination, but up until that point had been at least steady, albeit steady in a way that smacked of a bored person tapping fingers on a kitchen counter).
It's no Jabberwocky -
I wonder if this "Fairy" had a name....
could make a sugestion!
very cute yet again Mr Carroll
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