Acrostic: Maidens! If You Love the Tale
ACROSTIC: MAIDENS! IF YOU LOVE THE TALE
(To the Misses Drury.)
"MAIDENS! if you love the tale,
If you love the Snark,
Need I urge you, spread the sail,
Now, while freshly blows the gale,
In your ocean-barque!
"English Maidens love renown,
Enterprise, and fuss!"
Laughingly those Maidens frown;
Laughingly, with eyes cast down;
And they answer thus:
"English Maidens fear to roam.
Much we dread the dark;
Much we dread what ills might come,
If we left our English home,
Even for a Snark!"
Apr. 6, 1876.
Chicago:
Lewis Carroll, Acrostic: Maidens! If You Love the Tale Original Sources, accessed November 13, 2026, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=QFPL2HS4BJZ4LLT.
MLA:
Carroll, Lewis. Acrostic: Maidens! If You Love the Tale, Original Sources. 13 Nov. 2026. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=QFPL2HS4BJZ4LLT.
Harvard:
Carroll, L, Acrostic: Maidens! If You Love the Tale. Original Sources, retrieved 13 November 2026, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=QFPL2HS4BJZ4LLT.