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Haileyburiana is a miscellany of things I got up to as President of the Haileybury Society in 2010 - 2011 and random musings on things to do with Haileybury. Whether you are an OH, a current pupil or parent, a teacher or other friend of the school I hope you will find something interesting here. The blog is no longer regularly updated, but there may still be occasional posts.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Jabberochum

You know the poem.

LS Milford (L 1867) records part, but not all, of a Latin version by FB Butler. (Staff 1868 -  1883)

Torva videns, sifflata sonans, curritque volatque
Per nemus obscuviam*, burbuleransque furit

Et caput abscissum prostratae in pulvere pestis
Rettulit, exclamans, Triumphe! Galumphe! domum.
Quid? tu Jabberochum, monstrum fatale, necasti?
(Sic pater amplexus), 'lustrigerate puer!'
'O jubilosa dies,' reboat, 'Calloque calaeque!'
Laetitiaque satur chortulat ore senex."

*"Obscuviam' = obscuram, invium


'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.

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