Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
1832 to 1898
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’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and ______ in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And ______ mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The ______ that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his ______ sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood ______ in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
______ Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the ______ wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
______ left it dead, and with its head
He went ______ back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to ______ arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the ______ toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All ______ were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.