Jabberwocky, a nonsensical verse by Lewis Carroll…it happens to be one of my all-time favourites, you see…
- ‘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 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.
3 replies on “Jabberwocky”
Are you trying to compete with Arjun? 😉
@Illusion: Whoa, not at all… 🙂 But ‘Jabberwocky’ is so good I couldn’t resist myself from putting it up.
Nice Poem && nice idea to let readers know be4….