favorite Alice

more trouble! Every time I try to pick one, I think "But wait, what about..."

'There's no use trying,' she said: 'one CAN'T believe impossible things.'

And it certainly DID seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach.

from "Wool and Water", but then there's also chapter one, watching the snow kiss the windows and the drifting into sleep and the pondering of punishment ... and chapter three with everything "worth a thousand pounds" and chapter two "remembering one is a Pawn" and on the way to becoming a Queen!!! ... not to mention "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" and trying to get out of the dark wood and the incredible shocking mesmerising horror of "The Walrus and the Carpenter" !!!!!!!!! .... and Bob Dylan's "a childish dream is a deathless need
 and a noble truth is a sacred creed" from Love and Theft released on 9.11.2001 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Still trying to choose ONE...

A boat beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July—

Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear—

Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die.
Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream—
Lingering in the golden gleam—
Life, what is it but a dream?