Tina´s notes

When my kids were young, they loved all books by Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and all the others. Lewis was an extraordinary person, interesting and crazy and fun. This Mischmasch poem Jabberwocky is hilarious, and written by him.
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

        from Through the Looking Glass

                    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 awhile in thought.

    And, as in uffish thought he stood,
        The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
    Came wiffling 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.