Tuesday 15 April 2008

Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll

Here's some splendid lyrical nonsense that adorns the wall of my toilet! Yay! (Yes, really! lol)



'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.


(from "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There," Lewis Carroll, 1872).


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4 comments:

  1. Splendid. I used to know this by heart (harder than it seems to learn nonsense accurately) and I used to recite it to my little boy when he was 2 or 3. Probably explains a lot.

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  2. LOL! That's great...will you move on to Edward Gorey next?

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  3. Edward Lear, maybe? rofl

    I love this because i did NOT learn this at school. I'd never heard of it for years! Gagh! What a deprived childhood I must have led, huh? lol

    Cyalayta
    Mal :)

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  4. We had to learn this by heart...I still know the first verse...our teacher (circa 1967) thought iut was so cool...we weren't too impressed thinking that age 13 we were beyond this stuff...

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