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THE CAT:<br />

Why, why was pigeon's flesh so nice,<br />

That thoughtless <strong>cat</strong>s should love it thus?<br />

Hadst thou but lived on rats and mice,<br />

Thou hadst been living still, poor Puss<br />

Cursed be <strong>the</strong> taste, howe'er refined,<br />

That prompts us for such joys to wish;<br />

And cursed <strong>the</strong> dainty, where we find<br />

Destruction lurking in <strong>the</strong> dish.<br />

From <strong>the</strong> Arabic in Ibn Alalap Alnaharwany.<br />

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