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  • DaninVan 04.11.04, 5:00 PM

    …berwocky?

  • Joe Geoghegan 04.13.04, 5:36 AM

    Riposte?

  • DaninVan 04.13.04, 1:29 PM

    Repost; Jabberwocky

  • DaninVan 04.13.04, 1:31 PM

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

    `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, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
    Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
    O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
    He chortled in his joy.

  • Knave 04.13.04, 3:33 PM

    Doesn’t the first paragraph repeat at the end of the poem?

  • DaninVan 04.14.04, 1:21 AM

    Carroll’s dead; he doesn’t care. 😉

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