alice-in-metamorpov/adventures-in-wonderland/poems/prisoners-letter.typ

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#let poem(content) = {
set par(first-line-indent: 0em)
align(center, block[
#set align(left)
#set block(breakable: false)
#emph(content)
])
}
#poem[
#block[
“They told me you had been to her, \
#h(1em)And mentioned me to him: \
She gave me a good character, \
#h(1em)But said I could not swim.
]
#block[
He sent them word I had not gone \
#h(1em)\(We know it to be true): \
If she should push the matter on, \
#h(1em)What would become of you?
]
#block[
I gave her one, they gave him two, \
#h(1em)You gave us three or more; \
They all returned from him to you, \
#h(1em)Though they were mine before.
]
#block[
If I or she should chance to be \
#h(1em)Involved in this affair, \
He trusts to you to set them free, \
#h(1em)Exactly as we were.
]
#block[
My notion was that you had been \
#h(1em)\(Before she had this fit) \
An obstacle that came between \
#h(1em)Him, and ourselves, and it.
]
#block[
Don't let him know she liked them best, \
#h(1em)For this must ever be \
A secret, kept from all the rest, \
#h(1em)Between yourself and me.”
]
]