A little bit of Culture...  Poetry from soc.culture.irish

Poetry Worldwide  (all else....)

Posted by jeinna
on:    27 August 1999

Time out for some word association:

Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass (and What Alice Found There)
New York: HarperCollins, 1993

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gire 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 jub-jub bird, and shun
The frumious bandersnatch"

He took his vorpal sword in hand
Long time the manxome foe he sought
And rested he by a tum-tum tree
And stood a while in thought

And as in uffish thought he stood
The jabberwock, with eyes of flame
Came whiffling through the tulgy wood
And burbled as it came

One two, one two, and though and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack
He left it dead, and with it's head
He went galumphing back

"And hast though slain the jabberwock?
Come to my arms my beamish boy
Oh frabjous day, Calloo Callay!"
He chortled in his joy

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gire and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe


--- The End ---

Questions? Comments? -K. E. Dennis

Poetry Worldwide  (all else....)

A little bit of Culture - Baile | Home