From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
"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..." -- Through the Looking-Glass Chapter viii