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                                        Jabberwocky
                                      By Lewis Carroll
                             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!
                              O 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.

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