<h3><SPAN name="Cats" id="Cats"></SPAN>Cats</h3>
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All ardent lovers and all sages prize,<br/>
—As ripening years incline upon their brows—<br/>
The mild and mighty cats—pride of the house—<br/>
That like unto them are indolent, stern and wise.<br/>
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The friends of Learning and of Ecstasy,<br/>
They search for silence and the horrors of gloom;<br/>
The devil had used them for his steeds of Doom,<br/>
Could he alone have bent their pride to slavery.<br/>
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When musing, they display those outlines chaste,<br/>
Of the great sphinxes—stretched o'er the sandy waste,<br/>
That seem to slumber deep in a dream without end:<br/>
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From out their loins a fountainous furnace flies,<br/>
And grains of sparkling gold, as fine as sand,<br/>
Bestar the mystic pupils of their eyes.<br/></p>
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