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THE CAT:<br />

To a Cat which had Killed a Bird<br />

O <strong>cat</strong> in semblance, but in heart akin<br />

To canine raveners, whose ways are sin<br />

Still at my hearth a guest thou dar'st to be ?<br />

Unwhipt of Justice, hast no dread of me?<br />

Or deem'st <strong>the</strong> sly allurements shall avail<br />

Of purring throat and undulating tail?<br />

No ! as to pacify Patroclus dead,<br />

Twelve Trojans by P elides' sentence bled,<br />

So shall thy blood appease <strong>the</strong> fea<strong>the</strong>ry shade,<br />

And for one guiltless life shall nine be paid.<br />

Agathias, Translation of Richard Garnett<br />

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