<html><head><meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark"></head><body><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">\nopagenumbers
\input makor2
%% IF you don't have Adobe Caslon fonts, comment OUT the next three lines...
%% \input zmtpac
%% \font\sbf=pacs9t \font\BF=pacb9t
%% \font\RM=pacr9t at 14pt \font\rmm=pacr9t at 9pt
%% ... and uncomment the following two lines...
\font\sbf=cmb10 \let\BF=\bf \font\RM=cmr12 scaled\magstep1
\font\rmm=cmr9

\hfontdef{OSH}{osheb2}{9pt}\hfontdef{HEB}{osheb2}{10pt}
\hfontdef{OOSH}{osheb2}{14pt}\baselineskip=10pt
\newdimen\ygap \ygap=9pt
\def\jline{\hbox\bgroup\hbox to.5\hsize\bgroup\hss\MakorEnvironment{YID}%
        \HEBREW\jjline}

\def\jjline\[#1\]#2={\[\hfont{HEB}#1\hskip.5\ygap\]\egroup\hbox
        to.5\hsize{\clearocplists\rm\hskip.5\ygap #2\hss}\egroup}
\jline\[\hfont{OOSH}der yomervokh \]\RM Jabberwocky=
\jline\[\hfont{OSH}loi karal\]\rmm Lewis Carroll (1871)=
\jline\[\hfont{OSH}ibergezetst: rf'l finkl\]\rmm Translated into
        Yiddish by Raphael Finkel=
\medskip\baselineskip=14pt
\jline\[s\'iz brilik geven, di shlikhtinke toves\]'Twas brillig, and the
slithy toves=
\jline\[hobn gevirt un gevimlt in vobn:\]Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:=
\jline\[gants mimzish geven di borogoves;\]All mimsey were the borogoves,=
\jline\[di mome-ret hot oysgegrobn.\]And the mome raths outgrabe.=
\medskip
\jline\[--- dokh hit zikh farn yomervokh!\]``Beware the Jabberwock, my son!=
\jline\[ tseyn vos zey khapn; kreln-shpits!\]The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!=
\jline\[farn yubyub foigl hit zikh;\]Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun=
\jline\[veikht fun froimdikn bandershnitz!\]The frumious
Bandersnatch!''=
\medskip
\jline\[er nemt in hand dem vorplen shverd.\]He took his vorpal sword
in hand:=
\jline\[dem ^sun' hot er lang gezukht.\]Long time the manxome foe he sought---=
\jline\[gerut arum an ets-toomtoom,\]So he rested he by the Tumtum tree=
\jline\[fartrakht, hot es gedukht.\]And stood awhile in thought.=
\medskip
\jline\[be.s shteyt er in gedankn oif,\]And, as in uffish thought he stood,=
\jline\[der yomervokh, mit fayer-oign,\]The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,=
\jline\[mit vifek kumt durkh tulgikn vald,\]Came whiffling through the
tulgey wood,=
\jline\[geburblt be.s gefloign.\]And burbled as it came!=
\medskip
\jline\[eyns, tsvey!  eyns, tsvey!  mit vey, mit vey,\]One, two! One,
two! And through and through=
\jline\[der vorpler kling makht shnoker-shnik,\]The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!=
\jline\[er shekht im op, un mit zein kop\]He left it dead, and with
its head=
\jline\[gelompik geyt tsurik.\]He went galumphing back.=
\medskip
\jline\[--- geteyt hostu dem yomervokh?\]``And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?=
\jline\[nem mikh orum, mein beymish kind.\]Come to my arms, my beamish
boy!=
\jline\[o yum-tu.v grois! khalein, khalois,\]O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!''=
\jline\[er chortlt un er zingt.\]He chortled in his joy.=
\medskip
\jline\[s\'iz brilik geven, di shlikhtinke toves\]'Twas brillig, and the
slithy toves=
\jline\[hobn gevirt un gevimlt in vobn:\]Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:=
\jline\[gants mimzish geven di borogoves;\]All mimsey were the borogoves,=
\jline\[di mome-ret hot oysgegrobn.\]And the mome raths outgrabe.=

\bye

%%% Local Variables: 
%%% mode: plain-tex
%%% TeX-master: t
%%% End: 
</pre></body></html>