'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
, my son
The jaws
, the claws
!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his
in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought-
So rested he
,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with
,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade
!
He left it dead, and with its
He went galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my
!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He
.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.