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THE CAT:<br />

Arsinoe's Cats<br />

Arsinoe <strong>the</strong> fair, <strong>the</strong> amber-tressed,<br />

Is mine no more;<br />

Cold as <strong>the</strong> unsunned snows are is her breast,<br />

And closed her door.<br />

No more her ivory feet and tresses braided<br />

Make glad mine eyes;<br />

Snapt are my viol strings, my flowers are faded,<br />

My love-lamp dies.<br />

Yet, once, for dewy myrtle-buds and roses,<br />

All summer long,<br />

We searched <strong>the</strong> twilight-haunted garden closes<br />

With jest and song.<br />

Ay, all is over now,— my heart hath changed<br />

Its heaven for hell;<br />

And that ill chance which all our love estranged<br />

In this wise fell<br />

A little lion, small and dainty sweet,<br />

(For such <strong>the</strong>re be!)<br />

With sea-grey eyes and softly stepping feet,<br />

She prayed of me.<br />

For this, through lands Egyptian far away,<br />

She bade me pass:<br />

But, in an evil hour, I said her nay,<br />

And now, alas<br />

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