"Jabberwocky"

Era briluz.
As lesmolisas touvas roldavam e reviam nos gramilvos.
Estavam mimsicais as pintalouvas,
E os momirratos davam grilvos.
"Foge do Jaguadarte, o que não morre!
Garra que agarra, bocarra que urra!
Foge da ave Fefel, meu filho, e corre
Do frumioso Babassura!"
Ele arrancou sua espada vorpal e foi atras do inimigo do Homundo.
Na árvore Tamtam ele afinal
Parou, um dia, sonilundo.
E enquanto estava em sussustada sesta,
Chegou o Jaguadarte, olho de fogo,
Sorrelfiflando atraves da floresta,
E borbulia um riso louco!
Um dois! Um, dois! Sua espada mavorta
Vai-vem, vem-vai, para tras, para diante!
Cabeca fere, corta e, fera morta,
Ei-lo que volta galunfante.
"Pois entao tu mataste o Jaguadarte!
Vem aos meus braços, homenino meu!
Oh dia fremular! Bravooh! Bravarte!"
Ele se ria jubileu. Era briluz.
As lesmolisas touvas
Roldavam e relviam nos gramilvos.
Estavam mimsicais as pintalouvas,
E os momirratos davam grilvos.

(Tradução do "Jabberwocky" por Augusto de Campos)

'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.

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

Lewis Carroll