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Quotation from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There 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.”
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg text)
Alice reads the opening stanza of the poem in a looking-glass book by holding it up to the mirror; Humpty Dumpty later explains its words.
Citation: "’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, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg text). (id through-the-looking-glass-q1)
Portrait: Alice-entering-looking-glass-house-vertical-alignment, John Tenniel, Public domain.
