(Dearest you: the Icon is drawn by the fantastic Neithan, and it is listed in the results. For some reason, it's not letting me add it to the resources. Love, calliope)

I thought that Caroll's Final Poem was beautiful and haunting, a greeting and a farewell to childhood. (Maybe someone could do a reading of it?) :

"A boat beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July --

Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear --

Long had paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die.
Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream --
Lingering in the golden gleam --
Life, what is it but a dream?"