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Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee
Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee
Resolved to have a battle,
For Tweedle-dum said Tweedle-dee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
Just then flew by a monstrous crow,
As big as a tar barrel,
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel.
Although Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee first appeared as characters in the old nursery rhyme, they are perhaps better known for appearing in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. In Chapter Four, Carroll introduces Tweedledum and Tweedledee and then quotes the nursery rhyme. Just like the rhyme, the two brothers agree to have a battle but never actually manage to have one.
Mother Osprey Poem: Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee
Illustration by John Tenniel from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
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Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee
Resolved to have a battle,
For Tweedle-dum said Tweedle-dee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
Just then flew by a monstrous crow,
As big as a tar barrel,
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel.
Although Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee first appeared as characters in the old nursery rhyme, they are perhaps better known for appearing in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. In Chapter Four, Carroll introduces Tweedledum and Tweedledee and then quotes the nursery rhyme. Just like the rhyme, the two brothers agree to have a battle but never actually manage to have one.
Mother Osprey Poem: Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee
Illustration by John Tenniel from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
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