I enjoy reciting this to people, to see if they can recognize it by the meter and rhyme-scheme, both of which are copied from the English. I wrote the whole thing in one fell swoop one night, after doing my Latin homework. Corrections, of course, followed.
Iabervoce
Terse erat, et toves sleves
Gyrant gimbantque in vabine:
Quam mimsi erant borogoves,
Et rathes momo exgre.
"Cave, mi, Iabervon, fili!
Nocent ora, ungues tenent!
Cave alas Iubiubi, et fuge
Frumium Bantanant(em)!"
Ensi vulnafero manu:
Diu hostes mances quaerat--
Lapsus Tumtum sub arborem,
Menteque steterat.
Et stabat in mente uffa dum,
Cum, Iabervon, igni oculi,
Viflabat per silvam tulgam,
Et burblat in ventu!
Hic illicque! Perque perque
Ensis vulnafer fulgerat!
Mortuum est, et illi caput
Domo regalabat.
"Vincesne tu iam Iabervon?
Veni, puer, me ad corpora!
Dies bone! Ecce! Euge!"
Risit laetitia.
Terse erat, et toves sleves
Gyrant gimbantque in vabine:
Quam mimsi erant borogoves,
Et rathes momo exgre.