That poem was a very funny parody of an Isaac Watts poem which starts,
“‘Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain,
“You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.”
As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed,
Turns his sides and his shoulders and his heavy head.”
‘Tis the voice of the lobster—I heard him declare, “You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.”
Rosa, it’s odd that some writer would base a story on that Carroll first line…
That poem was a very funny parody of an Isaac Watts poem which starts,
“‘Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain,
“You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.”
As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed,
Turns his sides and his shoulders and his heavy head.”