'You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir', said Alice. 'Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called "Jabberwocky"?'
'Let's hear it, said Humpty Dumpty. 'I can explain all the poems that ever were invented-and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.'
This sounded very hopeful, so Alice repeated the first verse:
'Twas brilling, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogroves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.