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Mother:
Alice, dear, what ails you,
Dazed and white and shaken? / Has the chill night numbed you? / Is it fright you have taken?
Alice: / Mother, I am very well, / I felt never better, / Mother, do not hold me so, / Let me write my letter.
Mother: / Sweet, my dear, what ails you?
Alice: / No, but I am well; / The night was cold and frosty, / There's no more to tell.
Mother: / Ay, the night was frosty, / Coldly gaped the moon, / Yet the birds seemed twittering / Through green boughs of June.
Soft and thick the snow lay, / Stars danced in the sky. / Not all the lambs of May-day / Skip so bold and high.
Your feet were dancing, Alice, / Seemed to dance on air, / You looked a ghost or angel / In the starlight there.
Your eyes were frosted starlight, / Your heart fire and snow. / Who was it said, "I love you"?
Alice: / Mother, let me go!