My Fairy
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”.
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll, (born January 27, 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, England—died January 14, 1898, Guildford, Surrey), English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist, especially remembered for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). His poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876) is nonsense literature of the highest order.