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Victor labrochii, spoliis insignis opimis,
 * Rursus in amplexus, o radiose, meos!

O frabiose dies! clamateque !
 * Vix potuit laetus chorticulare pater.

Cœsper erat: tunc lubriciles ultravia circum
 * Urgebant gyros gimbiculosque tophi;

Mœstenui visae borogovides ire meatu;
 * Et profugi gemitus exgrabuêre rathæ.

'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.