Poetry Archives

“—it was at the great concert given
by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing 

    ‘Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
    How I wonder what you’re at!’

You know the song, perhaps?”

“I’ve heard something like it,” said Alice.

“It goes on, you know,” the Hatter continued, “in this way:—

    ‘Up above the world you fly,
    Like a teatray in the sky.
    Twinkle, twinkle—‘”