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<Text id=CarAlWo>
<Author>Carroll, Lewis</Author>
<Title>Alice in Wonderland</Title>
<Edition>Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, 1940</Edition>
<Date>1865</Date>
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<div0 type=chapter n=1>
<l>All in the golden afternoon</l>
<l>Full leisurely we glide ;</l>
<l>For both our oars, with little skill,</l>
<l>By little arms are plied,</l>
<l>While little hands make vain pretence</l>
<l>Our wanderings to guide.</l>
<l>Ah, cruel Three ! In such an hour</l>
<l>Beneath such dreamy weather,</l>
<l>To beg a tale of breath too weak</l>
<l>To stir the tiniest feather!</l>
<l>Yet what can one poor voice avail</l>
<l>Against three tongues together?</l>
<l>Imperious Prima flashes forth</l>
<l>Her edict to begin it-- </l>
<l>In gentler tone Secunda hopes</l>
<l>"There will be nonsense in it!"-- </l>
<l>While Tertia interrupts the tale</l>
<l>Not <i>more</i> than once a minute.</l>
<l>Anon, to sudden silence won,</l>
<l> . . .