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Today’s Poem: You Are Old, Father William

Today’s Poem: You Are Old, Father William

Lewis Carroll has some fun with Robert Southey; Alice, down the rabbit hole, fails another test.

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John Tenniel, illustration from the first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865 (Wikimedia Commons)

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