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THE CAT;<br />

Le Chat Noir<br />

Half loving-kindliness, and half disdain,<br />

Thou comest to my call, serenely suave,<br />

With humming speech and gracious gesture grave,<br />

In salutation courtly and urbane.<br />

Yet must I humble me thy grace to gain,<br />

For wiles may win <strong>the</strong>e, but no arts enslave,<br />

And nowhere gladly thou abidest, save<br />

Where naught disturbs <strong>the</strong> concord of thy reign.<br />

Sphinx of my quiet hearth ! who deignst to dwell<br />

Friend of my toil, companion of mine ease,<br />

Thine is <strong>the</strong> lore of Ra and Rameses;<br />

That men forget dost thou remember well,<br />

Beholden still in blinking reveries,<br />

With sombre, sea-green gaze inscrutable.<br />

61<br />

Graham Tomson.

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