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THE LOVE-DOOMED RAT<br />
O poor rat. Poor rat!<br />
It's fallen in love with a cat! A cat!<br />
O what will become of it?<br />
It's hated enough for spreading plague and stuff,<br />
It's hated enough!<br />
It lives underground without the sun.<br />
In its drab dark world it has no fun.<br />
Poor rat!<br />
The trouble it's taking to make itself clean!<br />
It's so love-starved and lean!<br />
I hear it say: ‘My eyes are tiny<br />
And hers are like the moon,<br />
And soon, O soon I must risk it –<br />
I must visit that cat's basket!'<br />
What will become of it,<br />
Struck by love to such a strange degree,<br />
As lovesick as you or I could be?
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