Potiphar's Wife and Other Poems/An Introduction

by Edwin Arnold

For works with similar titles, see Introduction.

AN INTRODUCTION

(To O Yoshi San, with a copy of "Alice through the Looking-Glass.")

Blue-eyed Alice! once more pass
Lightly through your looking-glass,
Where, in wonder-world of dream,
Nothing is, but all things seem.
Pass! and tell O Yoshi San
All the mad wild fun you can,
Till her dear eyes, dark as night,
Gleam like yours with gay delight.
English Alice! if you please,
Be to-day quite Japanese! *******

Alice! here's O Yoshi San!
(Sweetest maid in all Japan)
Full of fun as heav'n of blue,
Yet demure and studious, too:
Yoshi! give your soft small hand
To Alice, fresh from Dreaming-Land!
Sweetest girl in England she,
So, make friends—and think of me!