Jabberwocky

** Jabberwocky **

 //Lewis Carrol// ( 1832 - 1898)

‘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,

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">And burbled as it came!

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">One, two! One, two! And through and through

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">He left it dead, and with its head

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">He went galumphing back.

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">He chortled in his joy.

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">All mimsy were the borogoves,

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">And the mome raths outgrabe.