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◊; Copyright 2011 by Joel Dueck. All Rights Reserved.
◊(define-meta published "2011-03-25")
◊verse{I often wondered when I cursed,
Often feared where I would be –
Wondered where she’d yield her love
When I yield, so will she.
I would her will be pitied!
Cursed be love! She pitied me…}
◊attrib{Attributed to Lewis Carrol}
◊note[#:date "2011-03-25"]{This is a “◊index{square poem}”: it can be read vertically (first word of
each line, second word of each line, and so on) as well as horizontally.
◊blockquote{“One of Carroll’s most remarkable poems, if indeed he wrote it, ◊index[#:key "tenuous
paper trails"]{was first published} by Trevor Wakefield in his Lewis Carroll Circular, No.
2 (November 1974). The poem is quoted in a letter to The Daily Express (January 1, 1964) by a writer
who tells of a privately printed book titled Memoirs of Lady Ure. Lady Ure, it seems, quoted the
poem as one that Carroll wrote for her brother. Wakefield says that no one has yet located a copy of
Lady Ure’s Memoirs, but whether this is still true I do not know.” ◊footer{Martin Gardener,
◊link[1]{◊cite{The Universe in a Handkerchief}, p. 20}}}}
◊url[1]{https://books.google.com/books?id=77kcKHmLZXIC&lpg=PA20&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q&f=false}
