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the Walrus and the Carpenter

The Walrus and the Carpenter [The Walrus and the Carpenter] BrE NAmE
a famous nonsense poem in the children’s book ↑Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. It describes how the walrus and the carpenter persuade some young ↑oysters (= a type of ↑shellfish) to come with them, and then they eat them. The poem’s best-known lines are: ‘The time has come’, the walrus said, ‘To talk of many things: Of shoes – and ships – and sealing-wax – Of cabbages – and kings.’