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Jabberwocky


 
'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 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!

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.

    Lewis Carroll  


Jabberwocky is a poem in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice found there, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Ever wondered what it actually means? Here's a variety of translations: The definitive, though unfortunately only partial, explanation by Humpty Dumpty, one by Carroll himself, and one by the Apple Newton.

Lewis Carroll Society

Both of Alice stories and Tenniel's illustrations are available from Project Gutenberg


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