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Father William
- “You are old, Father William,” the young man said,
- “And your hair has become very white;
- And yet you incessantly stand on your head —
- Do you think, at your age, it is right?”
- “In my youth,” Father William replied to his son,
- “I feared it would injure the brain;
- But now that I’m perfectly sure I have none,
- Why, I do it again and again.”
- “You are old,” said the youth, “as I mentioned before,
- And have grown most uncommonly fat;
- Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door —
- Pray, what is the reason of that?”
- “In my youth,” said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
- “I kept all my limbs very supple
- By the use of this ointment — one shilling the box —
- Allow me to sell you a couple.”
- “You are old,” said the youth, “and your jaws are too weak
- For anything tougher than suet;
- Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak —
- Pray, how did you manage to do it?”
- “In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law,
- And argued each case with my wife;
- And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
- Has lasted the rest of my life.”
- “You are old,” said the youth; one would hardly suppose
- That your eye was as steady as ever;
- Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose —
- What made you so awfully clever?”
- “I have answered three questions, and that is enough,”
- Said his father; “don’t give yourself airs!
- Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
- Be off, or I’ll kick you down stairs!”
This hilarious bit of verse by Lewis Carroll, from Alice in Wonderland, is a parody of a pious Victorian poem by Robert Southey, titled “The Old Man’s Comforts, and How He Gained Them.” The Southey poem is available online and reading it will undoubtedly enhance one’s pleasure at Lewis Carroll’s slapstick parody of it.
Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson (1832–1898). Dodgson was a lecturer in mathematics and an avid photographer. He made up the beginning of the story that became Alice in Wonderland to amuse the three young daughters of a friend of his, Henry George Liddell, when he took the girls out boating one day. One of the girls, Alice Liddell, asked him afterward if he would write it down, and so Dodgson began to compose what has become one of the world’s great children’s stories. His other famous children’s masterpiece is Through the Looking-Glass. The illustration is by John Tenniel and is one of the illustrations from Alice in Wonderland.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Father William
Father William
- “You are old, Father William,” the young man said,
- “And your hair has become very white;
- And yet you incessantly stand on your head —
- Do you think, at your age, it is right?”
- “In my youth,” Father William replied to his son,
- “I feared it would injure the brain;
- But now that I’m perfectly sure I have none,
- Why, I do it again and again.”
- “You are old,” said the youth, “as I mentioned before,
- And have grown most uncommonly fat;
- Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door —
- Pray, what is the reason of that?”
- “In my youth,” said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
- “I kept all my limbs very supple
- By the use of this ointment — one shilling the box —
- Allow me to sell you a couple.”
- “You are old,” said the youth, “and your jaws are too weak
- For anything tougher than suet;
- Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak —
- Pray, how did you manage to do it?”
- “In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law,
- And argued each case with my wife;
- And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
- Has lasted the rest of my life.”
- “You are old,” said the youth; one would hardly suppose
- That your eye was as steady as ever;
- Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose —
- What made you so awfully clever?”
- “I have answered three questions, and that is enough,”
- Said his father; “don’t give yourself airs!
- Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
- Be off, or I’ll kick you down stairs!”
This hilarious bit of verse by Lewis Carroll, from Alice in Wonderland, is a parody of a pious Victorian poem by Robert Southey, titled “The Old Man’s Comforts, and How He Gained Them.” The Southey poem is available online and reading it will undoubtedly enhance one’s pleasure at Lewis Carroll’s slapstick parody of it.
Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson (1832–1898). Dodgson was a lecturer in mathematics and an avid photographer. He made up the beginning of the story that became Alice in Wonderland to amuse the three young daughters of a friend of his, Henry George Liddell, when he took the girls out boating one day. One of the girls, Alice Liddell, asked him afterward if he would write it down, and so Dodgson began to compose what has become one of the world’s great children’s stories. His other famous children’s masterpiece is Through the Looking-Glass. The illustration is by John Tenniel and is one of the illustrations from Alice in Wonderland.
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