The Milk-and-Water School <br />Alas! she would not hear my prayer! <br />Yet it were rash to tear my hair; <br />Disfigured, I should be less fair. <br /> <br />She was unwise, I may say blind; <br />Once she was lovingly inclined; <br />Some circumstance has changed her mind. <br /> <br /> <br />The Strong-Minded or Matter-of-Fact School <br />Well! so my offer was no go! <br />She might do worse, I told her so; <br />She was a fool to answer "No". <br /> <br />However, things are as they stood; <br />Nor would I have her if I could, <br />For there are plenty more as good. <br /> <br /> <br />The Spasmodic or German School <br />Firebrands and Daggers! hope hath fled! <br />To atoms dash the doubly dead! <br />My brain is fire--my heart is lead! <br /> <br />Her soul is flint, and what am I? <br />Scorch'd by her fierce, relentless eye, <br />Nothingness is my destiny!<br /><br />Lewis Carroll<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/photography-extraordinary/
