[Kwot] "Jabberwocky", Through the Looking-Glass (2) (Lewis Carroll)

“ There was a book lying near Alice on the table, and while she sat watching the White King (for she was a little anxious about him and had the ink all ready to throw over him, in case he fainted again), she turned over the leaves, to find some part that she could read, "for it's all in some language I don't know", she said to herself.

It was like this.
 

YKƆOWЯ∃ᗺᗺAJ

ƨɘvot yhtilƨ ɘht bna ,gillird ƨawT` 

;ɘbaw ɘht ni ɘlbmig dna ɘryg biⱭ

,ƨɘvogorod ɘht ɘrɘw yƨmim llA  

.ɘdargtuo shtar ɘmom ɘht dnA

She puzzled about this for some time, but at last,
a bright thought struck her. "Why, it's a Looking-Glass book of course! And if I hold it up to a glass, the words will all go the right way again."

This was the poem that Alice read.

JABBERWOCKY

 `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. ”

 

Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky"
Original illustration by John Tenniel

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872