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JABBERWOCKY
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass
and What Alice Found There, 1872)
`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 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, has 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!
JABBERWOCKY
Lewis Carroll was the
pseudonym of Enlgish mathemetician and writer Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson (1832 - 1898). A mathematical lecturer at Oxford (1855 -
1881) and publisher of mathematical treatises, he was also the
author of the classics Alices’s Adventures in Wonderland
(1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1872), based on
stories originally invented for Alice Liddell, second daughter of
Henry George Liddell, and illustrated by Sir John Tenniel. He also
authored Phantasmagoria (1869), Hunting of the Snark,
(1876), Rhyme? and Reason? (1883), and Sylvie and Bruno
(1889). |
