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THE CAT<br />

Free, and proud, and glad as <strong>the</strong>y,<br />

Here to-day-<br />

Rests or roams <strong>the</strong>ir radiant child,<br />

Vanquished not, but reconciled;<br />

Free from curb of aught above<br />

Save <strong>the</strong> lovely curb of love.<br />

Love, through dreams of souls divine,<br />

Fain would shine<br />

Round a dawn whose light and song<br />

Then should right our mutual wrong,<br />

Speak, and seal <strong>the</strong> love-lit law,<br />

Sweet Assisi's seer foresaw.<br />

Dreams were <strong>the</strong>irs; yet haply may<br />

Dawn a day<br />

When such friends and fellows born,<br />

Seeing our earth as fair at morn,<br />

May, for wiser love's sake, see<br />

More of heaven's deep heart than we.<br />

Algernon Charles Swinburne.<br />

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