title: Big Words For Little Tongues
author: Iris Hambling
description: Title: Big Words for Little Tongues &lt;&gt;Binding: Paperback &lt;&gt;Author: IrisHambling &lt;&gt;Publisher: XlibrisCorporation
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  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  By Lewis Caroll (1865)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All in the Golden Afternoon  
    
    
  
  
  All in the golden afternoon  
  Full leisurely we glide;  
  For both our oars, with little skill,  
  By little arms are plied,  
  While little hands make vain pretense  
  Our wanderings to guide.
  
  
  Ah, cruel Three! In such an hour,  
  Beneath such dreamy weather,  
  To beg a tale of breath too weak  
  To stir the tiniest feather!  
  Yet what can one poor voice avail  
  Against three tongues together?
  
  
  Imperious Prima flashes forth  
  Her edict to “begin it”:  
  In gentler tones Secunda hopes  
  “There will be nonsense in it.”  
  While Tertia interrupts the tale  
  Not more than once a minute.
  
  
  Anon, to sudden silence won,  
  In fancy they pursue  
  The dream-child moving through a land  
  Of wonders wild and new,  
  In friendly chat with bird or beast—  
  And half believe it true.
  
  
  And ever, as the s