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Jabberwocky: Source: (1983)

The poem tells the story of a son who slays the fearsome Jabberwock creature after his father warns him of its jaws and claws. Armed with his vorpal sword, the son seeks out the Jabberwock and eventually defeats it with two blows of his sword, cutting off its head. Upon returning home victorious, his father celebrates his victory, declaring it a "frabjous day."

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Jabberwocky: Source: (1983)

The poem tells the story of a son who slays the fearsome Jabberwock creature after his father warns him of its jaws and claws. Armed with his vorpal sword, the son seeks out the Jabberwock and eventually defeats it with two blows of his sword, cutting off its head. Upon returning home victorious, his father celebrates his victory, declaring it a "frabjous day."

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Jabberwocky

BY LEW IS CA RRO LL

’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.

Source: The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (1983)

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