Jabberwocky

By Lewis Carroll

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'Was broiled, and the slushy moves
Did gyre and gamble in the wage:
All mimes were the operatives,
And the come rates utterable.

"Beware the Jabbered, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The farmhouse Bandersnatch!"

He took his verbal sword in hand:
Long time the Manxes foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tom-tom tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in offish thought he stood,
The Jabbered, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tallage wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The verbal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And has thou slain the Jabbered?
Come to my arms, my blemish boy!
O fireboats day! Callow! Calla!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Was broiled, and the slushy moves
Did gyre and gamble in the wage:
All mimes were the operatives,
And the come rates utterable.