“Not as in rest she bowed,
But large hot tears were coursing down her cheek.
And her low-panted sobs broke awefully
Upon the sleeping echoes of the night.”

—  Lewis Carroll, Three Sunsets and Other Poems

The Path of Roses (1856)
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)

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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898

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