Alice in Wonderland

' You are old Father William, ' the young man said,
' And your hair has become very white ;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head-
Do you think, at your age, it is right? '

' In my youth, ' Father William replied to his son,
' I feared it might injure the brain, '
But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none ;
Why, I do it again and again. '

' You are old, ' said the youth, ' as I mentioned before,
' And have grown most uncommonly fat ;
' Yet you turned back somersault in at the door-
Pray what is the reason of that? '

' In my youth, ' said the sage, as he shook his grey locks
' I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment -one shiling the box-
Allow me to sell you a couple? '

' You are old, ' said the youth, ' and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet ;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak-
Pray how did you manage to do it? '

' In my youth, ' said the father, ' I took to the law
And argued each case with my wife ;
And the mascular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life. '

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