by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), as Lewis Carroll
Mine is a long and a sad tale!" said the...
Language: English
[ "Mine is a long and a sad tale!" said the Mouse,
turning to Alice, and sighing.
"It is a long tail, certainly," said Alice, looking down
with wonder at the Mouse's tail; "but why do you call
it sad?"
And she kept on puzzling about it while the
Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was
something like this:]1
`Fury said to a
mouse, That he
met in the
house,
"Let us
both go to
law: I will
prosecute
YOU. --Come,
I'll take no
denial; We
must have a
trial: For
really this
morning I've
nothing
to do."
Said the
mouse to the
cur, "Such
a trial,
dear Sir,
With
no jury
or judge,
would be
wasting
our
breath."
"I'll be
judge, I'll
be jury,"
Said
cunning
old Fury:
"I'll
try the
whole
cause,
and
condemn
you
to
death."'
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View original text (without footnotes)Part of this text was used by Ligeti in A Long, Sad Tale.
1 omitted by Lehmann.Text Authorship:
- by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), as Lewis Carroll, no title, appears in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, London, Macmillan; chapter 3, first published 1865 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Liza Lehmann (1862 - 1918), "Fury Said to a Mouse", published 1908 [ bass ], from Nonsense Songs: The Songs That Came Out Wrong, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Henri Bué) , no title
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2004-04-27
Line count: 52
Word count: 144