Bessie's Song To Her Doll
Matilda
Jane,
you
never
look
At
any
toy
or
picture-book.
I
show
you
pretty
things
in
vain
You
must
be
blind,
Matilda
Jane!
I
ask
you
riddles,
tell
you
tales,
But
all
our
conversation
fails.
You
never
answer
me
again
I
fear
you’re
dumb,
Matilda
Jane!
Matilda
darling,
when
I
call,
You
never
seem
to
hear
at
all.
I
shout
with
all
my
might
and
main
But
you’re
so
deaf,
Matilda
Jane!
Matilda
Jane,
you
needn’t
mind,
For,
though
you’re
deaf
and
dumb
and
blind,
There’s
some
one
loves
you,
it
is
plain
And
that
is
me,
Matilda
Jane!
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.