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’Tis two score years since Carroll’s art,
 With topsy-turvy magic,
Sent Alice wondering through a part
 Half-comic and half-tragic.

Enchanting Alice! Black-and-white
 Has made your deeds perennial;
And naught save “Chaos and old Night”
 Can part you now from Tenniel;

But still you are a Type, and based
 In Truth, like Lear and Hamlet;
And Types may be re-draped to taste
 In cloth-of-gold or camlet.

Here comes a fresh Costumier, then;
 That Taste may gain a wrinkle
From him who drew with such deft pen
 The rags of Rip Van Winkle!
Austen Dobson.