Jabberwocky

: For other uses of the name Jabberwocky, see Jabberwocky (disambiguation).

The poem

:'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

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:Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

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:All mimsy were the borogoves,

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:And the mome raths outgrabe.

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:'Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

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:The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

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:Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

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:The frumious Bandersnatch!'

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:He took his vorpal sword in hand:

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:Long time the manxome foe he sought--

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:So rested he by the Tumtum tree,

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:And stood awhile in thought.

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:And as in uffish thought he stood,

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:The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

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:Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

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:And burbled as it came!

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:One, two! One, two! And through and through

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:The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

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:He left it dead, and with its head

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:He went galumphing back.

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:'And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

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:Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

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:O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'

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:He chortled in his joy.

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:'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

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:Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

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:All mimsy were the borogoves,

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:And the mome raths outgrabe.

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