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I often wondered is one of those instances where the words dictated the music to an extreme. The text, by Lewis Carroll, displays a unique feature that is cared over strictly into the music: when laid out in lines of six words, it reads the same down as across
| I | often | wondered | when | I | cursed, |
| often | feared | where | I | would | be — |
| wondered | where | she’d | yield | her | love |
| when | I | yield | so | will | she. |
| I | would | her | will | be | pitied! |
| Cursed | be | love! | she | pitied | me… |