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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> <body> <loc><locdoc>CarAlWo5</locdoc><milestone n=5> <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> . . .
