a famous nonsense poem in the children's book Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. It describes how the walrus and the carpenter persuade some young oysters(= a type of shellfish) to come with them, and then they eat them. The poem's best-known lines are:“'The time has come', the walrus said,'To talk of many things:Of shoes – and ships – and sealing-wax –Of cabbages – and kings.’”