• When dorothy and I took tea, we sat upon the floor;
    No matter how much tea I drank, she always gave me more;
    Our table was the scarlet box in which her tea-set came;
    Our guests, an armless one-eyed doll, a wooden horse gone lame.
    She poured out nothing, very fast,—the tea-pot tipped on high,—
    And in the bowl found sugar lumps unseen by my dull eye....

  • When Dorothy and I took tea, we sat upon the floor;
    No matter how much tea I drank, she always gave me more;
    Our table was the scarlet box in which her tea-set came;
    Our guests, an armless one-eyed doll, a wooden horse gone lame.
    She poured out nothing, very fast,—the tea-pot tipped on high,—
    And in the bowl found sugar lumps unseen by my dull eye....