ECHOES
Lady Clara Vere de Vere
Was
eight years old, she said:
Every
ringlet, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden thread.
She took her little
porringer:
Of me she shall not win renown:
For the
baseness of its nature shall have strength to drag her
down.
"Sisters and brothers, little Maid?
There stands the Inspector at thy door:
Like a dog, he hunts for boys who know not two and two are four."
"Kind words are more than
coronets,"
She said, and wondering looked at me:
"It is the
dead unhappy night, and I must hurry home to
tea."
Lewis Carroll,1883