Literature

The 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 Jabberwock, my son!

      ___ The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

___ Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

      ___ The frumious Bandersnatch!”

___ He took his vorpal sword in hand;

   ___ Long time the manxome foe he sought—

___ So rested he by the Tumtum tree

      ___ And stood awhile in thought.

___ And, as in uffish thought he stood,

      ___ The Jabberwock, with eyes 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 hast 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.