The (almost really) Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

Rhyme? and Reason?

Source: inscribed into a copy of Rhyme? and Reason? for Miss Emmie Drury, 1883

“I’m EMInent in RHYME!” she said.
“I make WRY Mouths of RYE-Meal gruel!”
The Poet smiled, and shook his head:
“Is REASON, then, the missing jewel?”