'Twas brillig...

Declan, Greer and I watched the new-ish Tim Burton version of Alice in Wonderland today. I loved how there were bits of "The Jabberwocky" scattered through the film, so I bought Lewis Carroll's collected works on my Kindle (for a whopping $1.99). And now I can't stop singing it, a la the Cheshire Cat in the animated Disney version.

I think Declan and Greer are a little concerned. Calum seems to enjoy it.
It's so delightful and so brilliant, I just have to post it here, for the general uplifting of the populace:

Jabberwocky

by Lewis Carroll

'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.

Frumious Bandersnatch? Come on, how can you not enjoy language like that?!