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!"

JABBER

WOCKY

He took his vorpal sword in hand:

Long time the manxome foe he sought-
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood a while 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!

Long time
the manxome
foe he sought-
So rested he
by the Tumtum tree,
And stood a while
in thought.

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!
Oh 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.

Source:
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (1983)

All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Twas brillig, and
the slithy toves
Did gyre and
gimble in the wabe:

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