For a while people have been telling me that I need to post something new. However, I didn't have anything that I wanted to share with the entire Internet, thank you very much, but now I have stumbled across a poem that I think is so fascinating that I want everyone to share in its delight. The poem is called The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carol. It is a fascinating poem that as one person online put it "Beautifully skates the edge of being understood, and being nonsense." Alice also phrased it well when she said that it "fills (her) head with ideas-- only (she doesn't) exactly know what they are!" either way it is a great poem.
The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carol
'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 Jabbrewock, 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 had;
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
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,
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, eith eyes of flame,
Came whiffling though the tugey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! and though and though
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with itshead
He left it dead, and with itshead
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.
