It might help to have the original drawing from "Through the Looking Glass" in mind when you look at this source code: Jabberwocky. But then again, it might not!

P.S. For the record, I still can't get "foreach" to work in this module... and it lacks regular expressions :-(

Update: There seem to be ^Ms being added to this. Attempts are being made to remove them. But not very successfully. It seems to be an XML problem. The source works on a Linux box, but after uploading and downloading, ceases to function... I have verified that it works if all the ^M's are manually removed.

Update2: A quick fix to make this work is to manually remove the ^M that occurs after "finis" in the last line before the poetic text starts. It is apparently added by the PerlMonks engine at display/download-time, so there's no other real solution. Sorry. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Lingua::Romana::Perligata;
                                     meis
                                    datis.
           dum                nuntio perlegementum
         fac sic            cumula datis hoc. cis egresso
    secundum datorum    tum XXXVII tum I excerpementum scribe.
egresso tertium datorum tum XIII tum III excerpementum scribe.
                    egresso quartum       datorum tum XII tum III
                  excerpementum  scribe.   egresso XCVII indementum
                 tum cum CVIII   indementum               tum cum CV
             indementum scribe.         meo
              servo da XVimum         adnota
               datorum tum VII      tum II  excerpementum.
                 meo parvulo da  servum     tum     nullum
                 tum I adnota   II XVIII    ab    ex   de        
               excerpementum.   egresso
              scribe parvulo    adnota
             preincrescementum.
          parvulo da servum tum I tum I excerpementum.
      egresso      scribe parvulo preincrescementum tum lacunam.
conciditor         inquementum      tum lacunam serementum servo da.
servo da           servum tum
cum                quartum
datorum
adnota                 hae
obfuscementum serementum.
                                                 servum
                                                egresso
                                              scribe   .
                                              h inquementum
                                           numeramentum   tum
                                            XIII     addementum
                                         indementum       egresso
                                       scribe.                  y
                                      adnota personae           ae
                                 inquementum numeramentum        tum
                                     XIII adnota prae             ex
                              demementum           adnota          de
                           indementum                adnota         ab
                        egresso scribe.          a inquementum

egresso scribe. XXXIVimum datorum tum XI tum III excerpementum tum lac
+unam
egresso scribe. servo  creyvf inquementum  da. dum servum  fac sic par
+vulo
servum tum nullum tum I excerpementum da. servo servum tum I excerpeme
+ntum
da. egresso scribe parvulum  cifrementum. cis  novumversum egresso scr
+ibe.
obfuscere sic  huic  his  decapitamentum  da. huic hoc  tum XXXIII  tu
+m IV
excerpementum  da.  redde  hoc. cis  cifrere  sic meo littero  his  ad
+nota
decapitamentum da.  litterum numeramentum  tum XIII addementum  meo nu
+mero
da. si XXV tum XCVII addementum  tum numerum  praestantiam fac  sic nu
+mero
numerum tum XXVI demementum da. cis redde cum numerum indementum.cis f
+inis
Gaberbocchus a Hassard Dodgson latine reditus

Hora aderat briligi. Nunc et Slythia Tova
Plurima gyrabant gymbolitare vabo;
Et Borogovorum mimzebant undique formae,
Momiferique omnes exgrabuere Rathi.

"Cave, Gaberbocchum moneo tibi, nate, cavendum!
(Unguibus ille rapit. Dentibus ille necat.)
Et fuge Jubbubum, quo non infestior ales,
Et Bandersnatcham, quae fremit usque, cave."

Ille autem gladium vorpalem cepit, et hostem
Manxonium longa sedulitate petit;
Tum sub tumtummi requiescens arboris umbra
Stabat tranquillus, multa animo meditans.

Dum requiescebat meditans uffishia, monstrum
Praesens ecce! oculis cui fera flamma micat,
Ipse Gaberbocchus dumeta per horrida sifflans
Ibat, et horrendum burbuliabat iens!

Ter, quater, atque iterum cito vorpalissimus ensis
Snicsnaccans penitus viscera dissecuit.
Exanimum corpus linquens caput abstulit heros
Quocum galumphat multa, domumque redit.

"Tune Gaberbocchum potuisti, nate, necare?
Bemiscens puer! ad brachia nostra veni.
Oh! frabiusce dies! iterumque caloque calaque
Laetus eo" ut chortlet chortla superba senex.

Hora aderat briligi. Nunc et Slythia Tova
Plurima gyrabant gymbolitare vabo;
Et Borogovorum mimzebant undique formae,
Momiferique omnes exgrabuere Rathi.

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