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12 THE CAT

The fat cat on the matAdvertisement

may seem to dream

of nice mice that suffice

for him, or cream;

but he free, maybe,

walks in thought

unbowed, proud, where loud

roared and fought

his kin, lean and slim,

or deep in den

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in the East feasted on beasts

and tender men.

The giant lion with iron

claw in paw,

and huge ruthless tooth

in gory jaw;

the paid dark-starred,

fleet upon feet,

that oft soft from aloft

leaps on his meat

where woods loom in gloom-

far now they be,

fierce and free,

and tamed is he;

but fat cat on the mat

kept as a pet,

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