While this should be in a Literature/Written Word category, there is none, so I put it here, and it fits. Please identify the author, title, and supply only the next stanza. All subsequent posters should add one stanza, until we are complete.



Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
from "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There" (1872)

next stanza:

Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!

Of course, you're right. Now let us wait for people to finish for us.

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, has 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

In the First Edition, first issue, of 'Alice Through the Looking-glass' the word 'wabe' was printed as 'wade' Sadly for anyone who finds one this adds nothing to the value: the issue had such a big print run that a clean copy still only fetches about £100 ($200 )