Rhyme? and reason? . all extend : Then fill it up with Padding(Beg some of any friend): Your great Sensation-stanzaYou place towards the end. And what is a Sensation,Grandfather, tell me, pray ? I think I never heard the wordSo used before to-day : NON NASCITUR. I 2 9 Be kind enough lo mention one Exempli gratia? » !> And the old man, looking sadly Across the garden-lawn,Where here and there a dew-drop Yet glittered in the dawn,Said Go to the Adelphi, And see the Colleen Bawn. The word is due to Boucicault— The theory is his,Where Life becomes a Spasm, And History a Whiz:If that is not Sens
Rhyme? and reason? . all extend : Then fill it up with Padding(Beg some of any friend): Your great Sensation-stanzaYou place towards the end. And what is a Sensation,Grandfather, tell me, pray ? I think I never heard the wordSo used before to-day : NON NASCITUR. I 2 9 Be kind enough lo mention one Exempli gratia? » !> And the old man, looking sadly Across the garden-lawn,Where here and there a dew-drop Yet glittered in the dawn,Said Go to the Adelphi, And see the Colleen Bawn. The word is due to Boucicault— The theory is his,Where Life becomes a Spasm, And History a Whiz:If that is not Sensation, I dont know what it is. Now try your hand, ere FancyHave lost its present glow— And then, his grandson added, We 11 publish it, you know : Green cloth—gold-lettered at the back—In duodecimo ! 13° POETA FIT, NON NASCITUR. Then proudly smiled that old man To see the eager ladRush madly for his pen and ink And for his blotting-pad —But, when he thought of publishing, His face grew stern and sad. ^ , :. THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK, PREFACE. If—-and the thing is wildly possible—the charge ofwriting nonsense were ever brought against the author ofthis brief but instructive poem, it would be based, I feelconvinced, on the line (in p. 144) Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes : In view of this painful possibility, I will not (as I might)appeal indignantly to my other writings as a proof that Iam incapable of such a deed : I will not (as I might) pointto the strong moral purpose of this poem itself, to thearithmetical principles so cautiously inculcated in it, or toits noble teachings in Natural History—I will take themore prosaic course of simply explaining how it happened. I32 THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK. The Bellman, who was almost morbidly sensitive aboutappearances, used to have the bowsprit unshipped once ortwice a week to be revarnished; and it more than oncehappened, when the time came for replacing it, that no oneon board could remember which
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