THREE SUNSETSAND OTHER POEMS THREE SUNSETS AND OTHER POEMS THREE SUNSETSAND OTHER POEMS THREE SUNSETS AND OTHER POEMS BYLEWIS CARROLL LEWIS CARROLL WITH TWELVE FAIRY-FANCIES WITH TWELVE FAIRY-FANCIES BYE. GERTRUDE THOMSON PRICE FOUR SHILLINGS NET LONDONMACMILLAN AND CO., LimitedNEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY1898 Limited All Rights Reserved Richard Clay and Sons, Limited,LONDON AND BUNGAY. Richard Clay and Sons, Limited PREFACE. PREFACE. Nearly the whole of this volume is a reprint of the serious portion of Phantasmagoria and other Poems, which was first published in 1869 and has long been out of print. “The Path of Roses” was written soon after the Crimean War, when the name of Florence Nightingale had already become a household-word. “Only a Woman’s Hair” was suggested by a circumstance mentioned in The Life of Dean Swift, viz., that,