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Sylvie and Bruno

Name: Sylvie and Bruno
Author: Lewis Carroll

by Lewis Carroll

Two siblings alternate between fantasy and the real world after their father is the victim of a political conspiracy.

Opening

A few passages to enter the atmosphere.

Volume I

Is all our Life, then, but a dream
Seen faintly in the golden gleam
Athwart Time’s dark resistless stream?

Bowed to the earth with bitter woe,
Or laughing at some raree-show,
We flutter idly to and fro.

Man’s little Day in haste we spend,
And, from its merry noontide, send
No glance to meet the silent end.

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Sylvie and Bruno