Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass - FreeSchool

Though a famous free-standing poem in its own right, Jabberwocky was written for Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel Through the Looking Glass, a companion piece to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. `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