1# 2# 3 4JABBERWOCKY 5 6Lewis Carroll 7(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872) 8 9`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 10Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: 11All mimsy were the borogoves, 12And the mome raths outgrabe. 13 14"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! 15The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! 16Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun 17The frumious Bandersnatch!" 18 19He took his vorpal sword in hand: 20Long time the manxome foe he sought -- 21So rested he by the Tumtum tree, 22And stood awhile in thought. 23 24And, as in uffish thought he stood, 25The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, 26Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, 27And burbled as it came! 28 29One, two! One, two! And through and through 30The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! 31He left it dead, and with its head 32He went galumphing back. 33 34"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? 35Come to my arms, my beamish boy! 36O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' 37He chortled in his joy. 38 39`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 40Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; 41All mimsy were the borogoves, 42And the mome raths outgrabe. 43