'Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoeves. And the mome raths outgrabe. 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.