(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the , my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the , and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his in hand:
Long time the he sought —
So rested he by the tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

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