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'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! / Oh, 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.
"Lewis Carroll"