From “’Tis the Voice of the Lobster”
By Lewis Carroll
'Tis
the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare
"You
have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
As a
duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
Trims
his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.
When
the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And
will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark;
But,
when the tide rises and sharks are around,
His
voice has a timid and tremulous sound.
