Trio

(Alice begegnet dem weißen Ritter) ‘You are sad,’ the Knight said in an anxious tone: ‘let me sing you a song to comfort you.’ ‘Is it very long?’ Alice asked, for she had Heard a good deal of poetry that day. ‘It’s long,’ said the Knight, ‘but it’s very, very beautiful. Everybody that hears me sing it - Either it brings the tears into their eyes or else-’ ‘Or else what?’ said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. ‘Or else it doesn’t, you know.