Trio

‘You are sad,’ the Knight said in an anxious tone:

‘let me sing you a song to comfort you.’

‘Is it very long?’ Alice asked, for she had

Heard a good deal of poetry that day.

‘It’s long,’ said the Knight, ‘but it’s very, very beautiful.

Everybody that hears me sing it -

Either it brings the tears into their eyes or else-’

‘Or else what?’ said Alice, for the

Knight had made a sudden pause.

‘Or else it doesn’t, you know.