jabberwocky

Yikes! Don't let gangerh see that page! ;-> Thanks, frindley.

I believe that the first stanza of the poem is repeated at the end. At least, that's how I learned it.

Here there be a link to an ever-growing list of translations of this marvellous poem. Everything from Afrikaans to Yiddish, and not neglecting Esperanto, Latin and Klingon.

And now it's available twice. Yep.

'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 bit, 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 though.

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 though slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
-Lewis Carroll
(A poem that preceeds Through the Looking Glass)

...which, thanks to innovative new Poetrie technology, is already available on this site. :-)

If you have not read the poem, The Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll, please do. I love love love that poem!

Indeed!

Who doesn't love this word?