Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE POETIC MYSTERY (SUGGESTED BY 'ALICE IN WONDERLAND'), by ANONYMOUS


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THE POETIC MYSTERY (SUGGESTED BY 'ALICE IN WONDERLAND'), by                    
First Line: "poet, sit and sing to me"
Last Line: And the sounds care for themselves
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


"POET, sit and sing to me;
Sing of how you make your rhymes,
Tweedledum and tweedledee,
I have tried it fifty times.
When I have a perfect sense,
Then I have imperfect sounds;
Vice versa! Tell me whence
You get both, I neither." "Zounds!"

Cried the poet, "Don't you see
Easy't is as rolling log,
Holding eel or catching flea,
Meeting friend or leaving grog!
No such matter should annoy,
Deep the poet never delves;
Take care of the sense, my boy,
And the sounds care for themselves."





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